Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 Figurative Language – Flashcards
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I've hit the bull's-eye
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a beetle-taxi
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her mouth gone, without lipstick
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gobbledegook
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Their covers were torn off and spilled out like swan feathers
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The books leapt and danced like roasted birds
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one huge bright yellow flowers of burning
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great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits
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The last rolling thunder of the avalanche stoned down about his ears
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hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove
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a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail
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twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll
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a bloom of fire
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a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals
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The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log
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a shower of silver needles gushed up the length of the calf
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The pains were spikes driven in the kneecap
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then only darning needles
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then only common ordinary safety pins
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the prickling was like someone blowing a spray of scalding water on that leg
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he felt that Faber was really dead, baked like a roach
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It seemed like a boatless river
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a gas station, a great chunk of porcelain
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a great whirling whisper
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it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower
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Two dozen helicopters flurried, wavering indecisive, three miles off like butterflies puzzled by autumn
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His lungs were like burning brooms in his chest
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He kept moving them from hand to hand as if they were a poker hand he could not figure
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the helicopters falling falling like the first flakes of snow
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the helicopters fluttered like torn pieces of paper in the sky
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I can't breathe
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It's a wonder it didn't show on me, like fat
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hole up
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The sweat of his hand hung from the doorknob, invisible but as numerous as the jewels of a small chandelier
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He was a luminous cloud, a ghost that made breathing once more impossible
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came the helicopters like a grotesque flower
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The circus must go on
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kept his eye peeled
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The Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift
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his breath, like a doubled fist, in his chest
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The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source
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the million odors on a wind
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Another year ticked by in a single hour
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you look like hell
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he did a million things in his life
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to hell with that
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Now, a full three seconds, all of the time in history
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we'll build the biggest ******* steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up
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The day was brightening all about them as if a pink lamp had been given more wick
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