"Fahrenheit 451" Figurative Language PART 1

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What figurative language is the underlined text?

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head. (p.3)

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Before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere (#1),

as if someone had called his name. (#2) (p.4)

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Her dress was white and it whispered. (p.5)

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He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. (p. 7)

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He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now. (p.10)

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She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night. (p. 10)

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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? (p. 11)

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What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began. (p. 11)

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Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world where no sound from the great city could penetrate. (p. 11)