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Round 1: DIDLS
IDITIFICATION
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
ROUND 2: WHO SAID
IT?
“You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk,
you look at me… the others would never do that.”
Clarisse
“I’ll give you things to say. We’ll give him a good show. Do you
hate me because of this electronic cowardice of mine?”
Faber
“You’ve always said, ‘don’t have a problem, burn it.’ Well now I’ve
done both.”
Montag
“Take my word for it, I’ve had to read a few in my time to learn
what I was about, and the books say nothing.”
Beatty
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies… A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made.
Or a garden planted.”
Granger
“You’ll ruin us! Who’s more important, me or that Bible”
Mildred
“You heave [the kids] into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch. It’s
like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid.”
Mrs. Bowels
“Happiness is important. Fun is everything. And yet I kept sitting
there saying to myself, I’m not happy, I’m not happy.”
Montag
“You should consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth
wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all…”
Mildred
“Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting
nuts and bolts?”
Beatty
“Don’t try. It’ll come when we need it. All of us have
photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.”
Granger
ROUND 3: SYMBOLISM
symbolizes man’s ability to change and adapt
Montag
represents the darkest state of knowledge, death and darkness
thrive
Winter
a symbol for bright, new life and re-growth, a time of rebuilding
Spring
symbolic of knowledge and life
Light
symbolic of stupidity and death
Dark
symbolically associated with purity, innocence, and good
White
a mythological creature that rises from its own ashes- represents the
idea that from death and destruction comes new life and
knowledge
The Phoenix
symbolically represents impending darkness or death is coming
Fall
symbolizes life and thirst for knowledge
Clarisse
LIGHTNING ROUND
“they came through the front door and vanished
into the volcano’s mouth”
Answer:
Metaphor
“The fireproof plastic sheath on everything was cut wide
and the house began to shudder with flame.”
Answer:
Personification
“His flesh griped him and shrank as if it had been
plunged in acid. ”
Answer:
Simile
“Out of a helicopter glided something that was not
machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with
a pale green luminosity.”
Answer:
Imagery
“He kept moving them from hand to hand as if they were
a poker hand he could not figure.”
Answer:
Simile
“…a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius…”
Answer:
Allusion
“sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat”
Answer:
Simile
