Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451

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Identify the figurative language: "Her face was slender and milk-white, and it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity."

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative language: "The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement, making the girl seem fixed to a sliding walk, carried by the wind and leaves."

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Metaphor

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Figurative language in: "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live."

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Personification

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Figurative language in: "The woman on the porch reached out with contempt and struck the kitchen match against the railing."

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative language: "He felt his body divide into hotness and coldness, softness and hardness, trembling and not trembling, the two halves grinding upon each other."

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Metaphor

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Figurative language in: "The stars became sharp and prickly, as if they were on fire in the cold autumn sky."

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Personification

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Figurative language in: "The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."

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Simile

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Identify the figurative language: "The room was empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her toward morning."

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative language: "The walls sprang pulsing from every side, seething with life."

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Personification

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Figurative language in: "Her dress was like a snow-covered graveyard."

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Simile