Figurative Language in Fahrenheit 451 by Jacquie Leighton https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1 Cite some figurative language from Fahrenheit 451 and what it means in the text? Include the page number. en-us 2017-02-28 19:50:01 UTC 2017-03-01 19:18:32 UTC hello@padlet.com A python jleighton2 https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157126855




On the first page of Fahrenheit 451, the fireman's hose is called a "python." The reader knows it is not literally "a snake," but the use of the word python kind of suggests that the fire-spitting hose is alive and since serpents are often linked to evil symbolism (the serpent in the Garden of Eden) maybe that is what Bradbury is suggesting for a feeling.

]]> 2017-03-01 18:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157126855 The amber https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157137824 Guy describes Clarisse's eyes like amber. Her eyes seem to trap the esessence of childhood and curiosity.
They also might have to do with the color. ]]> 2017-03-01 18:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157137824 Pores https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157138296 Page 79, in Fahrenheit 451, as Faber is describing the quality of books. He finds some books are porous, or that they "can go under the microscope." He believes that books go deeper than the literal meaning, or more than what is immediately seen. Faber seams to reference the pores of skin, cavernous under the microscope, and deeper than the eye can see, as are books, which sometimes only the soul and mind can navigate.]]> 2017-03-01 18:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157138296 Slaughtered Birds https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157139990 On page 34 of Fahrenheit 451, Montag is in the house with the woman who had the books. When shovelfuls of books come falling down from the attic, he describes them as slaughtered birds falling. Figuratively, we know that the books aren't actually 
slaughtered birds but the description shows how the books fall very limply and hardly to the ground. This gave me a feeling of sadness because I could visualize the books falling to the ground as the woman stood there solemnly and unwilling to give up her passion.]]> 2017-03-01 19:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jleighton2/psvoseuqkcr1/wish/157139990