Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451 Part Two

We are all sheep.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Analogy

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

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

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Simile

You are a hopeless romantic.

• Analogy

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

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

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Idiom

The book has pores

• Analogy

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Analogy

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

• Personification

• Analogy

• Idiom

• Simile

The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Analogy

• Simile