Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "Her face was slender and milk-white, and it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Explain the meaning of the metaphor used in the following sentence: "Her face was slender and milk-white, and it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity."

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Explain the meaning of the metaphor used in the following sentence: "The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward."

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Anecdote

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Explain the meaning of the personification used in the following sentence: "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live."

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing."

• Allusion

• Personifcation

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Explain the meaning of the metaphor used in the following sentence: "The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Explain the meaning of the metaphor used in the following sentence: "He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3