Literary Devices in Fahrenheit 451

Definition: the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience; most appeal to the sense of sight sometimes the imagery will appeal to the senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch.

• imagery

• alliteration

• characterization

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning" is an example of what?

• synecdoche

• imagery

• conflict

• allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Definition: A person, place, or thing that has concrete meaning in itself and stands for something else of greater meaning.

• imagery

• synecdoche

• characterization

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. . . . But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we're got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them” is an example of what?

• symbol

• synecdoche

• conflict

• characterization

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Definition: the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

• conflict

• simile

• characterization

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“I’ll never come in again, thought Montag” is an example of what?

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Definition: makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.

• metaphor

• simile

• conflict

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“They fell like slaughtered birds…” is an example of what?

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Definition: makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific words of comparison.

• metaphor

• simile

• conflict

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world” is an example of what?

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• simile

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5