| The bombers crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness | personification and simile |
| sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat | simile |
| Delicately, like the petals of a flower | simile |
| Each becomes a black butterfly | metaphor |
| Light the third page from the second and so on, chain smoking | metaphor |
| I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking buried mine | analogy |
| the floor litter with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm | metaphor |
| The train radio vomited upon Montag | personification |
| He’s a regular peppermint stick now | metaphor |
| You’re a hopeless romantic | idiom |
| The book has pores | metaphor |
| when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! | analogy |
| we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off | metaphor |
| if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore | analogy |
| The salamander devours his tail! | metaphor |
| How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun | simile |
| newspapers dying like huge moths | simile |
| I need an umbrella to keep off the rain. I’m so damned afraid I’ll drown if he gets me again | metaphor |
| If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bone, and hear and analyze the fireman’s world, find its weakness, without danger. I’m the Queen Bee, safe in the hive. | analogy |
| I’ll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me. | analogy (and metaphor) |
| the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds | hyperbole or metaphor |
| like the enemy discs | simile |
| vanished into the volcano’s mouth | metaphor |
| The images drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic crystal bowl | simile |
| scare the hell out of them | idiom |
| Scare the living daylights out! | idiom |
Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language Part 2
February 8, 2020