Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language DOL

"He wore his happiness like a mask"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"She made the empty rooms roar with accusation.."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"...and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"Always before it had been like snuffing a candle."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"' Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall by this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out'"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

"the salamander on his arm and the phoenix-disc on his chest"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

Which quote contains an example of alliteration?

• "He felt she was walking in a circle about him"

• "How like a mirror, too, her face"

• "What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show"

• "anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began"

The fireman's slogan, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes" uses which two devices

• simile and metaphor

• allusion and alliteration

• allusion and personification

• personification and alliteration