Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451 Part Two

We are all sheep.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The image drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic crystal bowl.

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

You are a hopeless romantic.

• Analogy

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

If you drown, at least know you were headed for shore.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The book has pores

• Analogy

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

His massive black slicker flapped out behind so that he seemed a great black bat.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

I'll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The Sea of Faith... lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

• Personification

• Analogy

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Analogy

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3