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An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion

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Phantom

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Continuing without interruption

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Incessant

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To describe

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Limned

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Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible

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Incomprehensible

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The existing condition or state of affairs

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Status quo

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Something being hunted

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Quarry

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The conversion of a solid or gas into a liquid

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Liquefaction

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One who flees; refugee

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Fugitive

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Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion as appearance or manner

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Grotesque

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Something such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed

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Juggernaut

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One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules

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Pedants

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List 3 themes from “Dover Beach”

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  • Loss of Faith
  • War & Destruction
  • Beach = Sand + Water
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What does Beatty represent in the struggle between good and evil?

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The devil (angers and frustrates Montag)

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13
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Montag is compared to what mythological creature? Why?

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Icarus, because

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What is Faber associated with?

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A symbol of knowledge, his life is associated with wife, and he is associated with water

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Implied comparison between two seemingly unlike objectives

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Metaphor

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Compared two seemingly unlike objectives which uses the words “like” or “as”

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Simile

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What is the Phoenix and what does it represent?

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The Phoenix is a myth. It represents death by fire or rebirth. A Phoenix makes the same mistakes over and over again. It represents society

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When a situation becomes the opposite of what is intended

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Situational irony

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How is Mildred self-destructive?

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She promotes her own destruction and misery through her ignorance and refuses to accept that reality even exists

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The use of one thing to represent an entire set of ideas. They use fire as the central symbol to represent extinguishing thought, imagination, and appreciation

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Symbolism

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What is the significance of the title “burning bright”?

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The title is a reference for the burning and allusions to fire. Montag burns his own house and does not grieve for his loss

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Repetition of one letter sound in order to produce a desired effect

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Alliteration

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How is Montag self-destructive

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He talks to the women about the books. Approaches Faber and allows Beatty to drag him into a conversation about books and knowledge

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What is symbolic of Montag “dying”?

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He is killed on the parlor walls. It is symbolic of the dishonesty of society and the control of the media over the viewers knowledge. Also symbolic of Montag’s death as a fireman

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These are the hints as what is to take place in he future within the novel

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Foreshadowing

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Why is part two called “The sieve and the sand”?

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It is a metaphor for Montag’s frustration about being unable to determine what is true in the world

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How is society self-destructive?

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Ignoring reality will lead them blindly to destruction

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List and explain 3 major themes of Fahrenheit 451

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  1. Ignorance and Knowledge - Fireman destroy knowledge and promote ignorance to help maintain sameness
  2. Animal Imagery - Expresses the importance of nature or the lack of it
  3. Technology - a negative influence in the world
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Why is part 1 called the hearth and the salamander?

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It deals with Montag’s realization that he is unhappy and his quest for fulfillment in life. Without freedom to seek the truth, a man cannot discover happiness

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What does Montag represent in the struggle between good and evil?

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Montag has become a pawn in the struggle

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What does Faber represent in the struggle between good and evil?

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Faber represents an angel (encouraging Montag)

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Why did Beatty have to die?

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Because he either has to kill Montag or Montag has to kill him. Beatty knows he is wrong but isn’t brave enough to change it. So he makes Montag kill him because Montag is brave enough to change it.

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Clarisse often referred to things her _______ did and said

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Uncle

34
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Montag’s house reminds him of a _________

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Mausoleum

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Mildred usually has a _______ in her ear

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Seashell

36
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According to the rule book, firemen of America should ________.

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Answer alarms, start fires, and burn everything

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The old woman who was burned alive with all of her books affected all except ______.

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Beatty

38
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Montag came home from the old woman’s house with _______

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A book

39
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Clarisse’s uncle was one arrested for being a ________

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Pedestrian

40
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Montag believed that the words in the book somehow pointed to _______

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Clarisse

41
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The sniffing sound at the door was made by _______

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The mechanical hound

42
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Faber once taught what subject

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English

43
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Faber described himself as a _______.

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Coward

44
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Faber advises Montag to look for awareness in _________.

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Old friends, books, and nature

45
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Montag needed Faber to be his

Therapist
Attorney or
Geologist?

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None of these

46
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Montag and Faber kept in touch using the _________.

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Two way ear radio

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