Fahrenheit 451By Ray Bradbury

Extra Credit-Aire

Rules

• You will be given 5 minutes to look over your figurative language definitions

• After studying, each of you will be called on to recognize the figurative language device used in a particular passage

• A correct answer is worth 5 extra credit points that will be added to your grade.

• If you are not sure of the answer you may:– Phone a friend (ask any ONE person for help)• You MAY NOT ask the teacher• This will cost you 1 extra credit point it goes to your

FRIEND• You will earn 4 points for a correct answer

– Poll the audience (ask the whole class for help)• This will cost you 3 points• You will earn 2 points for a correct answer

– 50/50 (the teacher will provide 2 options)• This will cost you 2 points• You will earn 3 points for a correct answer

• The more questions we get through the better chance you have of being offered more than one extra credit opportunity. Work quickly

• Talking out of turn will result in a loss of ALL extra credit points earned. Work quietly

• Let’s Practice!!!!

Passage 1

“He seemed like a great black bat

flying above the engine”

Answer:

SIMILE

Passage 1

“And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping,

sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human

or known, all writhing flame…”

Answer:

Metaphor

Passage 2

“the house jumped up in a gorging fire ”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 3

“he saw their Cheshire Cat smiles burning through the walls”

Answer:

Allusion

Passage 4

“the train hissed like a snake”

Answer:

Onomatopoeia

Passage 5

“Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent”

Answer:

Alliteration

Passage 5

“I've always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and

awful feelings, poetry and sickness." ”

Answer:

Anaphora

Passage 5

“Wisps of laughter trailed back to him with the blue exhaust from

the beetle.”

Answer:

Imagery

Passage 5

“The brass pole shivered ”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 5

““…the great tents of the circus a had slumped into charcoal and rubble and

the show was well over. ”

Answer:

Metaphor

Passage 5

“…the cold November rain fell from the sky

upon the quiet house ”

Answer:

Imagery

Passage 5

“the sky over the house screamed ”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 5

“…standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop

straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers

away from her hair. ”

Answer:

Alliteration

Passage 5

“there was a tacking-tacking sound as the alarm report telephone typed out the

address ”

Answer:

Onomatopoeia

Passage 5

“They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the

avenue…”

Answer:

Allusion

Passage 5

“Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing,

move by move. ”

Answer:

Metaphor

Passage 5

“…his fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and

never rested.”

Answer:

Simile

Passage 5

“He was not happy. He was not happy.”

Answer:

Anaphora

Passage 5

“Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye,

Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh?

Uh! Bang, Boom!”

Answer:

Onomatopoeia

Passage 5

“The heat of the racing headlights burnt his cheeks, it

seemed, and jittered his eyelids and flushed the sour sweat out all over his body.”

Answer:

Imagery

Passage 5

“the orange salamander slept with its kerosene in

its belly…”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 5

“You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular

damned Tower of Babel.”

Answer:

Allusion

Passage 5

“They don’t feed it to the rookies like they used to.

Damn shame to.’ Puff. ‘Only fire chiefs remember it now.’

Puff. I’ll let you in on it.”

Answer:

Onomatopoeia

Passage 5

“Montag approached from the rear, creeping through a thick

night-moistened scent of daffodils and roses and wet

grass.”

Answer:

Imagery

Passage 5

“Faber was a gray moth asleep in his ear for the

moment”

Answer:

Metaphor

Passage 5

“the front door cried out”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 5

“…a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a

monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and boiling

over a yellow foam.”

Answer:

Simile

Passage 5

“I’m not worried,” said Mrs. Phelps. “I’ll let old Pete do all

the worrying. Not me. I’m not worried.”

Answer:

Anaphora

Passage 5

“they came through the front door and vanished

into the volcano’s mouth”

Answer:

Metaphor

Passage 5

“The fireproof plastic sheath on everything was cut wide

and the house began to shudder with flame.”

Answer:

Personification

Passage 5

“His flesh griped him and shrank as if it had been

plunged in acid. ”

Answer:

Simile

Passage 5

“Out of a helicopter glided something that was not

machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with

a pale green luminosity.”

Answer:

Imagery

Passage 5

“He kept moving them from hand to hand as if they were

a poker hand he could not figure.”

Answer:

Simile

Passage 5

“…a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius…”

Answer:

Allusion

Passage 5

“sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat”

Answer:

Simile