Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language Review

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote:

the firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whispered a single note across the black morning

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: rising in the thunderheads of tobacco smoke

• oxymoron

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: the bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• oxymoron

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: a fountain of books sprang down

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: a book like a white pigeon

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• oxymoron

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: the books fell like slaughtered birds

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: the books lay like great mounds of dishes left to dry

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: you've been locked up here with a regular Tower of Babel

• simile

• idiom

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: the path of kerosene lay like some evil snail

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote: the body thin as a praying mantis

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile