Fahrenheit 451 Test Flashcards
(46 cards)
This is a book of ________. It is a _________ that what we have is _______, and that sometimes we take what we value for ________.
warning, reminder, valuable, granted
Dystopic Novel: about a _______ that is _____, ______, and _______.
bleak, dark, dreary
Themes:
____________: the _________ or deletion of ___________material which may be considered __________, ___________, ________, or _________ to the _________ or __________ organizations as determine by a censor.
censorship, suppression, communicative, objectionable, harmful, sensitive, inconvenient, government, media
________ of Knowledge: Bradbury focuses on the importance of ________ and how it impacts our ______ to make _______. He believes that without the _______ to _______ about what we are doing, we’ll be ____ to do ______.
Ignorance, learning, ability, decisions, ability, think, led, wrong
We’re also going to see: _________ control through ________.
__________ and _______ manipulates _________ _________ and _________
Think back to the short story Harrison Bergeron
Government, technology, physically, mentally, people’s thoughts, behaviors
Propaganda
_______ or _____ group using __________ information to ________ people to believe with them.
Remember the use of propaganda in the novel Animal Farm.
government, political, false/half-true, persuade
Conformity
_______ that _______ the accepted ______ of a _______ or ______, and is the same as that of most people
behavior, obeys, rules, society, group
Terms and Devices to Look for
Epiphany: _______________
a sudden realization
Paradox: something that
contradicts itself but is true
Symbolism: something that
represents something else
Title of part one: “The Hearth and the Salamander”
________ contains a _________ in a home
Hearth, fire
_____________ was once ________ to be able to ______ in ________.
Salamander, believed, live, flames.
Title of part two: “The Sieve and the Sand” A _________ is used for ________ materials
sieve, straining
Simile and Metaphor: __________ two __________ things
comparing, unlike
A simile uses _________ or ________ and a metaphor DOES OR DOES NOT
like or as, does not
a leading character in a story who, unlike a traditional hero, lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality.
Antihero
The novel was written in a time when the world was threatened by ____________, new technologies were emerging and the world was getting ________.
nuclear war, smaller
1950 - President ___________ approves production of ____________
Harry Truman, hydrogen bomb
1951 - ________ is first broadcast across the country
Television
__________ & __________ Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for passing information on _______ to the ______.
Julius, Ethel, atomic weapons, USSR
1952 - Fashion, people, and society are very __________. People are generally ___________ of each other, the _________, __________, and _________.
conservative, respectful, government, religion, life
1954 - The _____________________ wrote in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that ____________________ in schools was illegal.
U.S. Supreme Court, racial segregation
US Senator _____________________ begins a televised anti- _________ witch hunt. This became known as “____________”.
Joseph McCarthy, Communist, McCarthyism
Basically the ______ War revolved around the fact that: the USA was a ____________ country where people could do what they want, become _______ and have ________.
Cold, Democratic, rich, freedoms
