F451 Vocab and Random Questions

How has Montag demonstrated that he experienced growth throughout the story?

• He once found pleasure in using fire to burn, but now he recognizes a different purpose for it

• He once was afraid of fire, but now it doesn’t bother him

• He once loved fire, but now he hates it

• He once was a pyromaniac, but now he’s afraid of fire.

the state of being completely forgotten or unknown; nothingness

• Oblivion

• Desolation

• Dilate

• Yield

to make wider or larger; cause to expand

• Dilate

• Dwindle

• Allot

• Waiver

devastation; ruin; dreariness; barrenness

• Desolation

• Oblivion

• Writhe

• Falter

a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material for burning a dead body, especially as part of a funeral rite, as in India

• Pyre

• Bombardment

• Oblivion

• Dilate

to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.

• Writhe

• Strive

• Yield

• Desolation

an attack with bombs and/or artillery fire

• Pyre

• Bombardment

• Oblivion

• Dilate

to tear apart, split, or divide; to separate into parts with force or violence

• Bombardment

• Oblivion

• Desolation

• Rend

to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation; to supply

• Yield

• Converge

• Prattle

• Falter

dressed; clothed; covered

• Clad

• Prattle

• Yield

• Rend