SIMILES (comparisons that use the word "like" or
"as.":
1) "[Montag] felt his head turn
like a stone carving..."
2) "They rise
like the midnight sun to sweat you in your
bed!"
3) "There was a crash like the
falling parts of a dream..."
4) "Their covers [the books']
torn off and spilled out like swan
feathers."
5) "The books leapt and danced
like roasted birds..."
METAPHORS
(comparison that do not use the words "like" or "as"):
1)
"Lights flicked on and house doors opened all down the street, to watch the carnival set
up." (The scene in front of Montag's house is being compared
to a carnival).
2) "I've hit the
bull's eye." (Beatty is comparing his correct analysis of Montag's behavior to
a marksmen hitting a target on the bull's-eye.).
3) "Now, Montag, you're a burden."
(Montag is not actually a heavy load that must carried on one's
back; he is being compared to a burden because he is a responsibility that must be dealt
with.)
4) "And then he came to the parlor where
the great idiot monster lay asleep..." [The characters who appear on the wall
television are being compared to "idiot
monsters."]
5) "The tents of the circus had
slumped into charcoal and rubble and the show was well over." [Similar to the
first metaphor example, the scene at Montag's house is being compared to a
circus]
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