Fahrenheit 451 Flashcards

Exposition -Intro to Montag-Clarisse Asks: Are you happy? Rising Action -Elderly lady burns-Montag steals first book (Bible)-Beatty and Montag talk (bump in the road) -he is “sick”-Turns to Faber (they plan their attack)-Montag reads Dover Beach to Mildred’s friends-Montag goes…

What is the meaning of the title of Part 2? The sand goes through the seive. Montag reads books that go right through him and he doesn’t remember anything What is the importance of the dentifrice commercial? shows how easily…

Guy Montag The protagonist of the story who is a fireman for ten years until he reads his first book. This person must leave his community in order to save his life. Mildred Montag Montag’s wife’s friend who has been…

In this society, what do firefighters do? They burn books Who is Clarisse McClellan? an unusual young girl who liked to think and talk; Montag’s neighbor; is later hit by a car and killed For what “crimes” has Clarisse’s uncle…

As the novel begins, Guy Montag is taking an intense pleasure in burning a pile of books on a lawn. It’s his job—he’s a fireman. He loves the way things look when they burn and the way he feels when…

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world metaphor before he reached the corner, however, he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere simile as if someone…

What hint does Beatty say he sent to Montag? The Hound What does Mildred have in her hand when she leaves the house? A suitcase What does Montag suspect Mildred of doing? Putting in the alarm What does Beatty say…

Montag and Mildred spend the afternoon flipping through books, reading passages, and trying to make sense of what they read. Mildred doesn’t see the point of it. She would rather be in the parlor with her TV “family” and is…

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…

What hint does Captain Beatty say he sent to Montag that he must not have picked up on? Beatty sent the Mechanical Hound to Montag’s house as a hint that he was watching him. What does Mildred have in her…