What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he is walking home)

"...he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(the books are burning)

"...while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch. . ."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(it is windy)

"The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain."

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he's coming home at night to see his wife)

"Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable . . . The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

"Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(they are getting bombed)

"As he stood there the sky over the house screamed."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(they are getting bombed)

"There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(they are getting bombed)

"Montag was cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split apart."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(they are getting bombed)

"The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and antoher and another, did all the screaming for him."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he stole a book)

"Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest."

What type of figurative language is being used here?

"He made more soft sounds. He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow. He fell into bed and his wife cried out, startled. He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea."