BELLRINGER
Please take the part 5 quiz. When you are done,
please get out a piece of lined paper and put your
proper heading on it. Here’s what it should look like:
Your Name
Ms. Sullivan
3rd Lit
10/21/13
Literary Device Test Review
PART 5 QUIZ ANSWERS
• Why does Montag want to switch out the book he found
at the old lady’s house?
• He believes it to be the only copy of the Bible in existence.
• He believes it holds the key to his happiness.
• Faber explains how important this book, Moby Dick, is to
society.
• Why does Montag cause such a scene on the train?
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He hates toothpaste and its commercials.
He wants to draw attention to himself.
The evils in the book he has motivate him to act insanely.
The toothpaste commercial playing distracts him from
memorizing.
• True or False? Faber tells Montag that books are the key
to his happiness.
• True. He claims that Montag needs only to read them to be
happy.
• True. He says that learning from books is essential to life.
• False. Books aren’t what he wants, rather it is the truths they
contain.
• False. Books suck.
• Faber compares their society to flowers that live on
___________ instead of dirt.
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mud
air
other flowers
rocks
• How does Montag plan to discredit the profession of firemen?
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by planting books in their homes
by tricking them into burning down the wrong homes
by forcing them to read all the books they have burned
by filming them burning others alive
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The books are just a trick, which the firemen use to frame people.
They don’t need to burn books, just get people to stop reading them.
Books are useless in a society without television.
All of the above
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buy materials to build inventions and gadgets.
buy weapons.
print books.
find elaborate ways of hiding his books.
• According to Faber, why aren’t firemen necessary in the first
place?
• Faber uses the wealth he has accumulated through investing to .
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TEST REVIEW
• Please have out a separate sheet of paper where
you can write the correct answers to this test.
• Make sure you are asking any questions that you
need to- this is your time
The clouds threatened rain and more personal tempests as
Mandy trudged the last mile to school. Like the obedient and loyal
dog her parents seemed to wish her to be, she consistently arrived at
first period a few minutes early. Despite the Lewis and Clarke-style
expedition their broken car had forced on her, Señor Chang’s Spanish
class never went without her punctuality.
She couldn’t figure it. On the one hand, her parent’s texted her
constantly, checking on her every move; on the other, they were
perfectly happy letting her risk her life walking the run-down streets of
her neighborhood, left to her own devices against the local crazies
and creeps. The trees themselves whispered to her – “Danger! Walk
faster.”
Today, a new predator had appeared in her nature show – a
herd of seventh graders had ridden by on fancy new bikes, displaying
their species’ distinct red-dot acne and scowling faces. The alpha of
the group, to whom she’d given the title Pimples McStinkeye, did one
of those fake laughs as they pedaled past. Apparently, Pimples
wanted to display her dominance to the herd. “It must take you
forever to get to school without a bike. What are your parents poor or
something?” she asked Mandy, chuckling to her friends.
“Zits a very nice bike,” retorted Mandy.
The text references the historical journey of Lewis and Clarke to
explore America, which covered thousands of miles and took
over two years. Two devices are at play here. For one, the
reference to a historical event is _______________________ and
the comparison of Mandy’s walk to school to this epic journey is
_______________________
The text describes Mandy’s parents as “text[ing] her constantly,
checking on her every move” but also “perfectly happy letting
her risk her life walking the run-down streets of her
neighborhood, left to her own devices against the local crazies
and creeps.” This contradictory attitude is best described as
_______________________.
Mandy doesn’t just walk to school, she “trudges.” Such wordchoice is an example of _______________________.
As if the writer wants us to understand that Mandy sees her life
as a kind of epic struggle, in which everything is out to get her,
there are many references to a “nature show,” “predator[s],” a
“herd,” “species,” “dominance,” and an “alpha.” Mandy is
continually framed as the prey in a world of predators, even
though she is just walking to school. This set of literary devices
working together toward a theme constitute a
_______________________.
The clouds threatening rain in the first line intend to put a picture
in our minds of dark, ominous clouds that will surely deliver rain.
Similarly, Pimples’s “red-dot acne and scowling face” attempt
to paint a picture for us. Such attempts are examples of
_______________________.
DEVICE FLASHCARDS
• Simile:
• Metaphor:
• Personification:
SIMILE, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION
WORKSHEETS
HOMEWORK
• Practice Literary Devices with flashcards
• Similes, Metaphors, Personification handout
• R.U. Book Review (due Wednesday/Thursday)