Fahrenheit 451 Part 2 Figurative Language – Flashcards
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The bombers crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness
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sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat
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Delicately, like the petals of a flower
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Each becomes a black butterfly
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Light the third page from the second and so on, chain smoking
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I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking buried mine
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the floor litter with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm
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The train radio vomited upon Montag
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He's a regular peppermint stick now
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You're a hopeless romantic
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idiom
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The book has pores
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when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes!
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we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off
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if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore
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The salamander devours his tail!
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How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun
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newspapers dying like huge moths
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I need an umbrella to keep off the rain. I'm so damned afraid I'll drown if he gets me again
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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.
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I'll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me.
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the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds
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like the enemy discs
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vanished into the volcano's mouth
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The images drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic crystal bowl
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scare the hell out of them
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Scare the living daylights out!
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A fly stirred its wings softly in his ear
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The Sea of Faith... lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled
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Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water
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It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him
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They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor
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Faber was a gray moth asleep in his ear
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We're all sheep
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A little learning is a dangerous thing
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Knowledge is power! A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees the farthest of the two
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His silly damned reading of a book to them. How like trying to put out fires with waterpistols,
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his massive black slicker flapped out behind so that he seemed a great black bat
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the men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots
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as quietly as spiders
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