Fahrenheit 451
Vocabulary
Persuasive Methods
Literary Terms
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100

The protagonist of Fahrenheit 451.

Who is Guy Montag?
100
Large and vast

What is immense?

100

This is when emotion or feeling is used to persuade. 

What is pathos?

100

This is when an author gives you hints about what is to come next in the story. 

What is foreshadowing? 

100

The beginning of the story is called.

What is exposition? 
200

These were banned and confiscated by the government in Fahrenheit 451.

What are books?

200

A young person

What is a juvenile?

200

This is when logic, reasoning, or thinking is used to persuade. 

What is logos?

200

This is when an author reveals things about a character's past or past events. 

What is flashback? 

200

The villain or character that opposes the protagonist.

What is antagonist?

300

This person was Guy Montag's wife. 

Who is Mildred?

300

Overpowering, tyrannical

What is oppressive? 

300

This is when character, ethics or a moral compass is used to persuade.

What is ethos?

300

This is when an author uses a symbol to represent a deeper meaning. 

What is symbolism? 

300

The most intense part of the story and the turning point of the events is called this. 

What is the climax?

400

This is when a government does not allow the public to obtain certain information from books, movies, or other media. 

What is censorship? 

400

Fear or anxiety about the future.

What is apprehension? 

400

If a commercial has a really cute puppy prancing through a beautiful meadow to persuade you to buy their dog food, it is using this persuasive strategy.

What is pathos?

400

Fiction, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Informational Text are examples of this.

What is genre

400

The challenges and obstacles that the characters have to overcome on their journey is called this.

What is conflict?

500

This is the author of Fahrenheit 451. 

Who is Ray Bradbury? 

500

To cause something to happen.

What is affect?

500

If a commercial shows you a graph of the amount of money you could save by switching to their company it is using this persuasive strategy.

What is logos?

500

The perspective from which the story is told, who tells the story.

What is point of view?

500

The events that happen within the story make up this. 

The plot.