Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language

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play on words

pun

comparing similar things

analogy

the little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest

analogy

we've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess. we're heading right for the cliff

analogy

an exaggeration

hyperbole

he felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness

hyperbole

montag was cut in half

hyperbole

never in a billion years

hyperbole

figurative phrase (meaning to it)

idiom

luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early

idiom

an unexpected occurrence or action

irony

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world

metaphor

a book is a loaded gun in the house next door

metaphor

a fountain of books sprang down upon montag, as he climbed shuddering up the sheer stairwell

metaphor

a great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls

metaphor

because i'm afraid, montag thought. A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run badly

metaphor

captain beatty there, rising in thunderheads of tobacco smoke

metaphor

comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

metaphor

complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world where no sound from the great city could penetrate

metaphor

he felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw

metaphor

he says I'm a regular onion

metaphor

his face a mask of ice

metaphor

she had both ears plugged with electronic bees

metaphor

the men with the eyes of puff adders

metaphor

the old time gathered there

metaphor

a word that resembles its sound

onomatopoeia

giving an object human like traits

personification

he felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets

personification

he stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now.

personification

her dress was white and it whispered

personification

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

personification

a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather

simile

as if someone had called his name

simile

beatty was looking at him as if he were a museum statue

simile

before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere

simile

comparing two unlike things using "like or as"

simile

empty the theaters save for clowns and furnish the rooms with glass walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne

simile

he felt his smile slide away, melt fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out

simile

he saw himself in her eyes ... as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact

simile

he wore his happiness like a mask

simile

her face was like a snow-covered island

simile

how like a mirror, too, her face.

simile

it was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke

simile

it was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness

simile

it's like a lesson in ballistics. it has trajectory we decided on for it

simile

it's like a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom

simile

montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest

simile

montag slid down the pole like a man in a dream

simile

montag you shin that pole like a bird up a tree

simile

one of the machines slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well

simile

she had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock

simile

she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show

simile

surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally bright, did most of the reciting and answering while the other sat like so many leaden idols, hating him

simile

the books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry

simile

the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow

simile

the electric thimble moved like a praying mantis on the pillow

simile

the fell like slaughtered birds

simile

the poison jumped over from shoulder blade to shoulder blade like a spark leaping a gap

simile

the shadow was like a breath exhaled upon the window

simile

the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies

simile

there was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giants had torn ten thousand miles of black lines down the seam

simile


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