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