Literary devices Fahrenheit 451

similes and metaphors

• compare

• give human characteristics

• describe

• exaggerate

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this

great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world"

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

hyperboles

• compare

• give human characteristics

• describe

• exaggerate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

describes using sensory language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

diction

• connotes feelings or associations

• compares

• exaggerates

• describes using sensory language

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

"Montag grinned the fierce grin" "wink at

himself," "luxuriously," "whistling"

All of these words connote

• anger

• joy

• fear

• confusion

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

There was a smell like pickles from a bottle and a smell

like parsley on the table at home. There was a faint yellow odour like mustard from a jar. There was a smell like carnations from the yard next door. He put down his hand and felt a weed rise up like a child brushing him. His fingers smelled of liquorice.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• diction

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Authors characterize by giving their characters _________.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

He held out a small bottle of colorless fluid. "Drink this, too. It'll change the chemical index of your perspiration. Half an hour from now you'll smell like two other people. With the Hound after you, the best thing is Bottoms up."

Granger can best be characterized as:

• rude

• impatient

• helpful

• strange

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B