| I remember the newspaper dying like huge moths | Simile |
| and then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling mannikin , no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him | Imagery |
| Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentrifice Dentrifice Dentrifice | Alliteration |
| Faber was a grey moth asleep in his ear, for the moment | Imagery |
| He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run across the lawn with the mask | Simile |
| Beatty’s telling Montag that he merely has to burn his problems | Foreshadowing |
| Slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth | Imagery |
| The salamander | Symbolism |
| He was as happy as a lark | Simile |
| The story of the sand and the sieve | Symbolism |
| She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of the night | Simile |
| Burning Bright | Alliteration |
| The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin | Simile |
| The the city rolled over and fell down dead | Metaphor |
| The fire was gone, and back again, like a winking eye | Personification |
| Foreshadowing | The panting of important clues to prepare the reader for what is to come |
| Irony | A mode of expression through words or events, conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation |
| Metaphor | A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says one thing else but, literally is not. |
| Personification | A figurative speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics |
| Imagery | The production of sense appeal through the use of figurative language |
| Simile | Type of figurative language, language that does not mean exactly what it says. Comparisons using like or as |
| Allusion | A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature |
| Alliteration | A latter of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds |
Literary devices Fahrenheit 451
February 7, 2020