Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451 Part Three

1. I've hit the bull's-eye.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Idiom

2. A great guzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

• Analogy

3. She ran past with her body stiff, her face floured with powder, (her mouth gone without lipstick).

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

4. Scientists (give us gobbledygook) about friction and molecules. But they don't really know.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Analogy

• Simile

5. Their covers were worn off and (spilled out like swan feathers).

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Analogy

6. (The books leapt and danced like roasted birds), their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

7. He cut off it's terrible emptiness, drew, back, and gave the entire room a gift of (one huge bright yellow flower of burning).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

8. Montag stood with the flame thrower in his limp hands, (great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits), his face smeared with soot.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

9. Lights flicked on and house doors opened all down the street, (to watch the carnival) set up.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

10. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known...

• Irony

• Analogy

• Personification

• Metaphor