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by Ray Bradbury

From Fahrenheit 451 Literature Guide Developed by Kristen Bowers
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Part One
Standards Focus: Characterization and Character Motivation

Characterization is the technique by which authors develop characters.
Direct characterization is when the author or narrator tells the reader what the character is like.
For example, Rhonda works diligently to make sure her cookies are the best in town.
Indirect characterization is when the author gives information about a character and allows the
reader to draw his or her own conclusions about that character. Two ways we can learn about a
character through indirect characterization are:
A characters own thoughts, feelings and actions the reader witnesses what the character does
or says, and learns something about the character from these thoughts, feelings or actions. For
example, On her way to class after lunch, Susan saw some trash on the ground that wasnt
hers. She decided to pick it up anyway, and threw it in the trash can.
The reader can make some assumptions about Susan from this excerpt: she cares about the
environment, she takes pride in her school, she likes things neat and tidy, etc. Each of these are
appropriate assumptions based on Susans actions.
Interactions with other characters the reader witnesses the interactions between characters,
such as how other characters act and what they say about each other. For example, Emma
said, Julia seems to not care about her school work anymore. Its as if she is distracted or
concerned about something. What do you think? I dont know, but it is certainly unlike her to
get bad grades, Ashley replied.
The reader can make assumptions about Julia from the conversation between Emma and
Ashley. The reader can conclude that Julia used to work hard and get good grades in school,
that she is distracted about something, and that she is not behaving like her usual self.

Character Motivation is what drives a character to do what they do. In other words, ask yourself:
what is this characters strongest desire? Characters decisions are important to the plot, and in many
cases, their decisions will affect the plays outcome. Just as we can tell a great deal about a person by
the way he or she lives his or her life, we can also learn a lot about characters by what they say and do.
Similarly, just as some of the decisions we make in our lives are minor and trivial, and others change
our lives forever, a skilled writer develops characters that also make both seemingly unimportant as
well as life-altering choices.

Directions: For each of the characters below, complete the chart with textual examples of indirect
characterization from Part One of the novel. First, find a quote in which another character describes
something about that character, and then find a quote in which the character describes himself. Be
sure to give the page number from where you obtained the quote. Then in your own words, fill in
what you think is the characters main motivation as evident this far in the story.

Character Guy Montag Page #
Another
Characters
Description

Description
of Himself

Motivation
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Character Clarisse McClellan Page #
Another
Characters
Description








Description
of Herself








Motivation








Character Mildred Montag Page #
Another
Characters
Description








Description
of Herself








Motivation








Character Beatty Page #
Another
Characters
Description








Description
of Himself








Motivation








Character The Mechanical Hound Page #
Another
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Motivation








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Part One
Standards Focus: Setting, Tone, and Mood

Setting is the time, place, and atmosphere in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting can include time of day, weather, season, era, location, and social or political
atmosphere; for example: The year is 1914. It is early morning, outside the barn on
Fosters farm in Glenn, Kansas. The sun is rising slowly, and the animals begin to flutter
about, welcoming a new day.
Tone is the authors attitude toward his subject; a clever writer can use a sympathetic tone
to make the reader feel sorry for a character, for example. Conversely, writers can use a
distant, detached tone to keep the reader from relating to or feeling sentiment for a
character. Some words to describe tone are: somber, sarcastic, bitter, matter-of-fact,
sentimental, etc.
Mood is the general emotional response that a reader feels when reading. Writers use
figurative language, details, dialogue, and foreshadowing to help set the mood in a piece of
literature. Mood is often expressed in adjectives which describe how the writer intends to
make you feel, like: tense, serene, somber, optimistic, dark, and depressed.
In Part One, Bradbury creates a mood of tension and unrest from the very first sentences of the
novel: It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things
blackened and changed. By equating the idea of pleasure with burning and fire, we
immediately feel uneasy. Our conscience tells us that something on fire is generally a bad
thing.

Directions: For each of the quotes from the text, underline the words that reveal the setting,
including clues about time, place, and atmosphere, then on the line labeled setting, explain
how these particular words indicate specifics about the setting. Next, explain the tone
Bradbury uses to create mood. Include comments on the use of figurative language, imagery,
etc., if apparent. Finally, describe the mood of the excerpt using as many details and
appropriate adjectives as possible. An example has been done for you.

Ex. 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.
a. Setting: It is autumn, after dark. It is windy and leaves are thrown into the air as the girl
walks along.
b. Tone: distant, detached, ominous, threatening, eerie; the tone makes us feel as if there is no
one else around, and the girl appears with the gust of wind, almost with a ghostly quality
c. Mood: lonely, uneasy, skeptical, suspicious


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1. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.
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. The room was not
empty.
a. Setting:

b. Tone:

c. Mood:

2. 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.
a. Setting:

b. Tone:

c. Mood:

3. As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound
as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black lines down the seamThe jet
bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of
them, twelve of them, and one and one and one and another and another and another, did all
the screaming for him.
a. Setting:

b. Tone:

c. Mood:

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4. Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and
mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly. Above all, their laughter was
relaxed and hearty and not forced in any way, coming from the house that was so brightly lit
this late at night while all the other houses were kept to themselves in darkness. Montag heard
the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.
a. Setting:

b. Tone:

c. Mood:

5. Montag stayed upstairs most nights when this went on. There had been a time two years
ago when he had bet with the best of them, and lost a weeks salary and faced Mildreds insane
anger, which showed itself in veins and blotches. But now nights he lay in his bunk, face
turned toward the wall, listening to the whoops of laughter below and the piano-string scurry
of rat feet, the violin squeaking of mice, and the great shadowing, motioned silence of the
Hound leaping out like a moth in the raw light, finding, holding its victim, inserting the needle
and going back to its kennel to die as if a switch had been turned.
a. Setting:

b. Tone:

c. Mood:

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Part Two
Standards Focus: Poetry Analysis

In Part Two, Montag reads a poem called Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Arnolds
poem is considered one of the most important of the 19
th
Century, as it explores the emptiness of the
self-indulgent Victorian Era in England: a time when machines and industry took the place of manual
labor, Darwinism and science questioned religious views, and epidemics of cholera and typhus killed
thousands. The fact that Montag reads this particular poem to the women in Fahrenheit 451 is no
accident. Bradbury parallels the problems of the Victorian Era to those of the society of Fahrenheit 451;
that the women dont understand the poem at all even further exemplifies the poems significance.

Directions: For this exercise, you will be analyzing the poem Dover Beach. Next to each stanza,
write what you think the poet is saying in the poem. If you would like, you may analyze it line by line,
or summarize the message. When you have finished, complete the tasks and answer the questions on
the next page.

Dover Beach

1 The sea is calm tonight, _______________________________
2 The tide is full, the moon lies fair _______________________________
3 Upon the straits; on the French coast the light _______________________________
4 Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, _______________________________
5 Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. _______________________________
6 Come to the window, sweet is the night air! _______________________________

7 Only, from the long line of spray _______________________________
8 Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, _______________________________
9 Listen! you hear the grating roar _______________________________
10 Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, ______________________________
11 At their return, up the high strand, _______________________________
12 Begin, and cease, and then again begin, _______________________________
13 With tremulous cadence slow, and bring _______________________________
14 The eternal note of sadness in. _______________________________

15 Sophocles long ago _______________________________
16 Heard it on the Agean, and it brought _______________________________
17 Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow _______________________________
18 Of human misery; we _______________________________
19 Find also in the sound a thought, _______________________________
20 Hearing it by this distant northern sea. _______________________________

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21 The Sea of Faith _______________________________
22 Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore __________________________
23 Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. _______________________________
24 But now I only hear _______________________________
25 Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, _______________________________
26 Retreating, to the breath _______________________________
27 Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear _______________________________
28 And naked shingles of the world. _______________________________

29 Ah, love, let us be true _______________________________
30 To one another! for the world, which seems _______________________________
31 To lie before us like a land of dreams, _______________________________
32 So various, so beautiful, so new, _______________________________
33 Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, _______________________________
34 Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; _______________________________
35 And we are here as on a darkling plain _______________________________
36 Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, __________________________
37 Where ignorant armies clash by night. _______________________________

1. Circle the words in which alliteration is used. (Hint: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
sounds at the beginning of (usually consecutive) wordsthis is NOT the same as rhyme!)

2. Underline the words in which assonance is used. (Hint: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds
in a lineagain, this is not the same as rhyme, and the spelling may be different.)

3. Which of the following BEST describes the authors tone in this poem? _____
a. sympathetic c. apathetic
b. disenchanted d. optimistic

4. Which of the following lines contains a simile? ______
a. The tide is full, the moon lies fair
b. Listen! you hear the grating roar
c. Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled
d. Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light

5. To what is Arnold MOST likely referring with the phrase Sea of Faith? ______
a. art
b. poetry
c. science
d. religion

6. Which of the following BEST describes the poems theme? _____
a. Man is far more powerful than nature.
b. Natures power can be felt in our souls.
c. Faith is disappearing, like the retreat of the waves on a beach.
d. Like a wave covering the sand, time disappears forever.
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Part Two
Standards Focus: Figurative Language

One of the most captivating aspects of good literature is the use of figurative language, or
ideas communicated beyond their literal meaning to create an image in the readers or
audiences mind. There are several types of figurative language, also called figures of speech.
For this exercise, you will use the following figures of speech:
metaphor- a comparison, based upon similarity or resemblance, of two or more
objects: The pillow was a cloud. Metaphors can also be more complex: His recliner
was his throne and his remote, his scepter; with these he ruled his kingdom.
simile- a comparison made between two unlike objects, using the words like or as
in the comparison: The pillow was like a marshmallow.
personification- giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human objects:
The wind sang its sad song.

Directions: Read each quote from Part Two. Look at the underlined figure of speech in the
sentence, then decide what type of figure of speech is being used. Finally, analyze the
comparison being made, the object being personified, or the image being created by
explaining the meaning of the figure of speech. An example has been done for you.

Ex. Each page becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? Light the third page from the
second and so on, chain smoking, chapter by chapter There sat Beatty, perspiring
gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.
Figure of Speech: metaphor
Analysis: Bradbury compares the burnt pages of the book to a swarm of black moths, as
the pages lie there, dead from the fire.

1. She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

2. There were people on the suction train but he held the book in his hands and the silly
thought came to him, if you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the
sieve.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

3. The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of
tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass.
Figure of Speech:
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Analysis:

4. The night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

5. [Christ is] a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isnt
making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely
needs.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

6. And the faster he poured [the sand], the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

7. Dont ask for guarantees. And dont look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine,
or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were
headed for shore.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

8. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe into
one garment for us.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

9. Denhams Denhams Denhams, the train hissed like a snake.
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

10. Montag, go home. Go to bed. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying
youre a squirrel?
Figure of Speech:
Analysis:

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Part Three
Standards Focus: Developing Style

In order to become a great writer, each must learn to develop his own style. Bradbury spent many years
of his life developing, practicing, and polishing his unique style. While practice is arguably the most
important aspect of great writing, there are a few techniques writers use to make their writing even
better. Once you learn to incorporate these techniques, your writing will improve immensely.

Technique #1: Incorporate Vivid Words
Using vivid nouns and verbs rather than adjectives and adverbs can improve your writing immediately.
Be specific with your words, and choose them wisely. For example, rather than saying went, use
strolled, sauntered, wriggled, raced, shuffled, or sprinted.

Technique #2: Vary Sentence Length
Sentence length can make the difference between your writing sounding as if it was written for a child
or for an adult reader. Short, choppy sentences with little variety are sentences a second grader might
read. For example, Sam went to the store. She bought a candy bar. It was her favorite. However,
combining sentences together creates a much more sophisticated and interesting sentence: Sam went
to the store to buy her favorite candy bar. Although this sentence is not brilliant, it is an improvement.

That being said, however, an author may deliberately use short, choppy sentences to convey a tone or
mood. For example, Bradbury wrote: The beetle was rushing. The beetle was roaring. The beetle
raised its speed. The beetle was whining. The beetle was in high thunder. The beetle came skimming.
This use of repetition and short, choppy sentence structure helps to build the intensity of the situation
as the car chases after Montag in Part Three.

Technique #3: Vary Sentence Openers
Rather than beginning each sentence the same way (unless you are trying to achieve a certain tone or
mood as in the example above), try varying each sentence opener with a new type of phrase or part of
speech. For example, try opening with an adverb: Softly, she touched the rose petal to her cheek. Or a
prepositional phrase: Without her knowledge, he sneaked into her room and read her diary. Or a
verbal (participial) phrase: Waiting for his chance to speak, he rehearsed what he would say.
Similarly, a dependent (also called a subordinate) clause can also improve the opening of a
sentence: Underneath her pillow, she found a crisp dollar bill.

Technique #4: Vary Sentence Structure
Varying sentence structure is similar to varying sentence length; however, by varying your use of
punctuation, both sentence length and structure can be improved.

Try to combine thoughts by using a semi-colon, which connects related ideas that might normally be
separated into two sentences. For example: Rachel is a great student; she studies very hard.

Use coordinating conjunctions and, but, for, nor, yet, or, and so to combine simple sentences. For
example: Many people know that calories are energy for the body, yet few understand how calories
work.

Use subordinators (used with a subordinate clause) such as: although, though, because, since, if,
unless, when, whenever, and until. For example: Until she met me, she had never had a best friend.

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Use transition words such as however, as a result, with time, on the other hand, to sum up, and for
example. For example: They had decided to meet at a restaurant, however they failed to indicate
which one.

Use appositives to improve a nouns description and to specify particulars. For example: Her
blanketa soft, fuzzy, and bright pink ball of fabriclay strewn across her bed.

Technique #5: Use Figurative Language
Use metaphor, simile, and personification to add life to your writing. For review on figurative language,
see page 35.

Try also using hyperbole, which is exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect. For example: I
died laughing.

Directions: Below are sentences taken directly from the text of Fahrenheit 451. Use the techniques
described on page 44 to modify the sentences from the text and help develop your own unique style of
writing. Once you have rewritten the sentence(s), indicate which technique you used to modify the
sentence. An example has been done for you.

Ex. Beatty grabbed Montags shoulder as the beetle blasted away and hit seventy miles an hour, far
down the street, gone.

My Version: Unsympathetically, Beatty seized Montags stiff shoulder as the beetle, the anonymous
transporter, blasted away and hit seventy miles an hour, far down the street, gone forever, a black dot of
memory and despair.
Techniques: use of adverb to begin sentence; use of the more vivid verb seized rather than grabbed;
use of the adjective stiff for describing Montags shoulder; use of an appositive the anonymous
transporter to describe the beetle; use of an appositive to describe the beetle at a distance.

1. He tried to think about the vacuum upon which nothingness had performed, but he could not. He
held his breath so the vacuum could not get into his lungs. He cut off the terrible emptiness, drew
back, and gave the entire room a gift of one huge bright yellow flower of burning.

My Version:




Techniques:


2. He heard a number of people crying out in the darkness and shouting. He reached the backyard
and the alley.

My Version:

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Techniques:


3. Nowhere. There was nowhere to go, no friend to turn to, really. Except Faber. And then he
realized that he was, indeed, running towards Fabers house, instinctively.

My Version:




Techniques:


4. He washed his hands and face and toweled himself dry, making little sound. He came out of the
washroom and shut the door carefully and walked into the darkness and at last stood again on
the edge of the empty boulevard.

My Version:




Techniques:


5. He decided not to count his steps. He looked neither left nor right. The light from the overhead
lamp seemed as bright and revealing as the midday sun and just as hot.

My Version:



Techniques:


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Part Three
Standards Focus: Authors Style

Style is a literary technique used by an author to create a piece of literature that reveals the
authors uniqueness. Word choice, figurative language, imagery, rhythm, sentence structure,
foreshadowing, symbolism, use of dialect, and other literary devices, all work together to make
an authors writing distinctive. The style in which an author writes influences how well we
understand and identify with the literature, and reveals an authors biases and beliefs.

Ray Bradbury uses numerous techniques of style which helped to make Fahrenheit 451 such a
literary success. He uses long, wordy sentences, short, choppy sentences, difficult vocabulary,
and figurative language extensively.

Directions: Identify the elements of style that are being used in each of the following excerpts,
choosing from the box below. Elements may be used more than once, and there may be more
than one right answer for each. Once you have identified the elements of style that have been
used, explain the effect that these techniques have on the reader. An example has been done
for you.

Ex. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that hes burnt his damn wings, he
wonders why.
a. Elements of style: use of figurative language in wanted to fly near the sun and now
that hes burnt his damn wings; use of allegory, since the reference is to the Icarus myth
of Greek mythology; conversational tone; plain, simple vocabulary
b. Effect: The use of the figurative language continues the theme of fire which is
throughout the entire book. While I was not familiar with the allegory, I knew there was
something unusual about the words Beatty used, so I looked it up in the list of allusions
on pages 13-16; the sentence also has a conversational tone with simple, clear
vocabulary

1. Montags face was entirely numb and featureless; he felt his head turn like a stone carving
to the dark place next door, set in its bright border of flowers.

a. Elements of style:

b. Effect:


figurative language repetition sensory images
short, concise sentences complex vocabulary symbolism
stream of consciousness long, wordy sentences plain, simple vocabulary
use of allegory formal tone conversational tone
use of dialect clear rhythm pattern foreshadowing
imagery flashback

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2. He burnt the bedroom walls and the cosmetics chest because he wanted to change
everything, the chairs, the tables, and in the dining room the silverware and plastic
dishes, everything that showed that he had lived here in this empty house with a strange
woman who would forget him tomorrow, who had gone and quite forgotten him already,
listening to her Seashell Radio pour in on her and in on her as she rode across town,
alone.
Elements of style:

Effect:


3. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer
human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of
liquid fire on him.
Elements of style:

Effect:


4. Two dozen [police helicopters] flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like
butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were plummeting down to land, one by one,
here, there, softly kneading the streets where, turned back to beetles, they shrieked along
the boulevards or, as suddenly, leapt back into the air, continuing their search.
Elements of style:

Effect:


5. The beetle was rushing. The beetle was roaring. The beetle raised its speed. The beetle
was whining. The beetle was in high thunder. The beetle came skimming. The beetle
came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle.
Elements of style:

Effect:



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Answer Key

Characterization and Character Motivation
Answers will vary widely. Sample student answers are given.
1. Montag: Another Characters Description: You laugh when I havent been funny and you
answer right off. You never stop to think what Ive asked you.; Description of Himself:
Was I given a choice? My grandfather and father were firemen. In my sleep, I ran after
them. ; Motivation: to find out the truth and discover why books are so attractive to him
and the others.
2. Clarisse: Another Characters Description: How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and
yet you seem so much older at times.; Description of Herself: Ive got to go see my
psychiatrist now. They make me go. I make up things to say.; Motivation: to keep
enjoying the beauty of life; to try to help Montag realize the beauty of the world and how
ugly things have gotten.
3. Mildred: Another Characters Description: Her face was like a snow-covered island upon
which rain might fall, but felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows,
but she felt no shadow; Description of Herself: I wouldnt do a thing like that. Why would
I do a thing like that? ; Motivation: to keep herself happy in any way possible
4. Beatty: Another Characters Description: (this one is very difficult to find) And men like
Beatty are afraid of her.; Description of Himself: Well, Montag, take my word for it, Ive
had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing!;
Motivation: to keep Montags curiosity under control
5. The Mechanical Hound: Another Characters Description: It doesnt like or dislike. It just
functions. Its a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide on for it. It follows
through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. Its only copper wire, storage batteries,
and electricity.; Motivation: to seek out and destroy anything that has been set as the
enemy

Setting, Tone, and Mood
Answers will vary. Sample student answers have been given.
1. possible underlined words: cold marbled room, mausoleum, moon, darkness, silver,
windows tightly shut, chamber, tomb, no sound
a. In Montags home, it is after dark. It feels cold and empty but his wife is home.
b. cold, distant, detached, eerie; the tone feels as if he is walking into a tomb, silent, full of
dead bodies
c. uneasy, unwelcome, lonely
2. without light, uncovered and cold, body displayed on the lid of a tomb, eyes fixed, threads
of steel, immovable, empty, waves, tides of sound, floating hertoward morning
a. Mildreds bedroom; Montag sees his wife asleep, looking like she is dead in a tomb.
b. cold, sterile, somber
c. depressed, dark, frightened, uncomfortable
3. screamed, tremendous ripping sound, two giant hands, black lines, (repetition of numbers),
screaming
a. Millies bedroom while the planes going to war fly overhead.
b. matter-of-fact, straight, repetitive
c. panicked, uneasy, nervous, scared
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4. laughter, moon-colored, smiled, quietly and earnestly, laughter, relaxed, hearty, not forced,
brightly lit, talking, giving, weaving, hypnotic web
a. Outside Montags house; Clarisses house; neighbors house
b. dreamlike, pleasant, welcoming, comfortable, inviting
c. happy, relieved, curious, comfortable, secure
5. lost, insane anger, veins and blotches, face turned toward the wall, whoops of laughter,
scurry of rat feet, violin squeaking of mice, great shadowing, motioned silence, leaping out
like a moth, raw light
a. the Firehouse
b. warning, careful, admonishing, cautious sounds
c. afraid, disturbed, frightened, disgusted

Poetry Analysis
Line by line analysis will vary.
1: the sea is calm
2: the tide is up and the moon is out
3: the moon shines on the land and on the coast in France
4: the light shines and disappears; the cliffs of England are there
5: shining and wide, all the way to the ocean
6: come to the windowsmell the nice, clean air!
7: in the spray of ocean mist
8: where the sea meets up with the land, the moon shining
9: you can hear the waves crashing
10: on the rocks, and the waves continue
11: back and forth upon the land
12: the waves seem to stop and start
13: they build and build
14: as if they are bringing in sad feelings
15: Sophocles
16: heard these sad sounds on the sea
17: and remembered these sad sounds
18: of human misery
19: we also hear these sad sounds
20: on the distant ocean
21: religion
22: was at one time full and hearty
23: laying like the waves
24: but now I only hear
25: a sad roar of what used to be
26: and the disappearance
27: of this faith
28: left with just the leftovers that dont mean anything
29: oh, let us be true
30: to each other, for the world seems
31: to be right in front of us seeming like a dream
32: shining and new
33: is without love, joy, or light
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34: and without peace or pity
35: and we as human beings on this land
36: are confused and struggle and fight
37: like the militaries that dont know what they are fighting for

1. Answers may vary. Students may have circled the words full, fair in line 2, gleams, gone,
glimmering in lines 4 and 5, long line in line 7, meets, moon-blanched in line 8,
which, waves in line 10, love, let in line 29, true, to in lines 29 and 30, lie, like, land
in line 31, so, so, so in line 32, nor, nor, nor in lines 33 and 34, and swept, struggle in
line 36.
2. Answers will vary. Students may have underlined the words Sophocles long ago in line
15, misery, we in line 18, girdle furled inline 23, darkling plain in line 35
3. b. disenchanted
4. c. Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled
5. d. religion
6. c. Faith is disappearing, like the retreat of the waves on a beach.

Figurative Language
Analysis will vary. Sample student answers are given.
1. simile; comparing her to a melting wax doll; she was scared
2. metaphor; maybe something will actually change this time
3. personification; the radio was really loud and overbearing, ringing in his ears
4. simile; a hidden explosionsomething that was going to cause a lot of harm
5. metaphor; Christ is sweet and colorful and portrayed like some cartoon character
6. personification; the sand was hot, and the whisper was made by the sounds of sand falling
through the sieve
7. metaphor; if you die, at least you know you died in pride, or died trying to accomplish a goal
8. metaphor; throughout the years, the world was put together and made sense in books
9. simile; the sound of the train is being compared to a snakes hissing
10. metaphor; why deny what you have become?there is no way out now


Developing Style
Answers for this activity will vary widely. Students should attempt to change the sentences
using the techniques described, then are to explain the techniques they used. Accept all
reasonable responses.

Authors Style
1. a. use of figurative language: like a stone carving; short, concise sentence; use of imagery
numb and featureless, bright border of flowers, relatively simple vocabulary; b. the use
of the figurative language and imagery really help to give a clear picture of Montags sense
of shock
2. a. stream of consciousness; long, wordy sentence; conversational tone; simple vocabulary;
b. it gives the feeling of Montags heart beating and adrenaline pumping; the long sentence
separated by commas gives the reader a feel for the panic and mania Montag is feeling
3. a. use of figurative language a shrieking blaze; use of vivid verbs jumping, sprawling,
gibbering; use of imagery writhing flame and continuous pulse of liquid fire; b. gives
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vivid description of what Beatty looked like while he was being burned to death; he was
obviously twisting and turning as he burned
4. a. use of vivid verbs: flurried, wavering, plummeting, kneading, leapt; use of figurative
language like butterflies, shrieked along; long, wordy sentence, continuous stream of
consciousness; b. gives the feeling of panic like being attacked; the continuousness makes it
feel like they are coming down, one after another, bombarding them; there is also a feeling
of suffocation as the air becomes inundated with the helicopters
5. a. short, choppy sentences; use of vivid imagery rushing, roaring, whining, skimming use
of figurative language fired from an invisible rifle; b. the short sentences make it feel as if
the beetles are coming closer and closer; give the feeling of a heartbeat increasing; make us
feel overwhelmed and unable to think

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