Keep this. Assignment on the back.
Poetic Prose Project for Fahrenheit 451
Due ___________________
Ray Bradbury used figurative language throughout his novel to create mental pictures or images in his readers’
minds. As a result, his prose often sounds much like poetry.
Part One: On notebook paper, create your own chart of poetic prose from the novel. Use blue or black ink. Do not write
on the back. Skip a line between each example. DO NOT USE MY EXAMPLES BELOW. On line A, write the page
number and the quotation. On line B, write a paraphrase of the quote. FIND FOUR OF EACH TYPE OF FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE. Place the four similes on page one, the four metaphors on page two, and the four examples of
personification on page three.
Part Two—Optional for Bonus: Choose one of your quotes and make a visual no larger than 9 X 12 expressing its
meaning. Neatly write your quote on your visual. Do not put your visual on notebook paper.
A SIMILE is a figure of speech in which like or as or similar words are used to make a comparison between two basically
unlike ideas. “Alex is as bright as Jason” is a comparison, not a simile. “Alex is as bright as a light bulb” is a simile.
A simile DOES NOT BEGIN with the words like or as. Do not write half a simile on your paper.
A METAPHOR is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Unlike a simile, a
metaphor implies a comparison between two basically unlike ideas.
Example: Alexander is the sunshine of my day.
PERSONIFICATION is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics, or the
qualities of life are given to something lifeless.
Example: An angry sun beat down upon the men.
DO NOT USE THESE EXAMPLES IN YOUR PROJECT.
1.
“He strode in a swarm of fireflies.”
A. page 3
B. paraphrase:
2.
“Her dress was white and it whispered.”
A. page 5
B. paraphrase:
3.
“…the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest.”
A. page 12
B. paraphrase:
4.
“two moonstones buried in a creek of clear water”
A. page 13
B. paraphrase:
5.
A. page 14
“They had two machines, really. One of them slid down into your stomach like
a black cobra down an echoing well…”
B. paraphrase: