She’s got you going and next thing you know we’ll be out, no house, no job, nothing.” (Millie was worried about how Montag might cause their downfall. It was her responsibility, she should have thought of that. ► “She’s nothing to me she shouldn’t have had books. ► They walked still further and the girl said, “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” (It is ironic how the role of a firefighter has changed in the novel.) ► The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentifrice, Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three, one two, one two three. ► The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice. ► ‘Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long!’ (Allusion to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice) Alliteration (Allusion to Sidney’s The Defense of Poetry) ► ‘Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge,’ Sir Philip Sidney said. (Allusion to Robert Browning’s Pippa Passes) Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why.” (Allusion to Icarus’s story) Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, and William Faulkner) That’s our official slogan.” (Allusion to Edna St. Monday bum Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then bum the ashes. Simmons is Marcus.” (Allusion to Marcus Aurelius, Plato, and Plato’s Republic) (Rain drops fire, sleeping-tablets, tissue, etc., are compared with the characters of the novel.) Allusion One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping-tablets, men, disposable tissue, coat-tails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush. (According to the writer, the train can vomit just like a person.) ► The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great ton-load of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. (Books are said to have bird-like qualities.) ► The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. (Trees are personified with the ability to run and pull away.) ► He smelled the heavy musk-like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal’s breath, all cardamom and moss and ragweed odor in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes. In addition, the night and forest provides the ability to see.) (A wall is attributed with human features like eyes. ► Out of the black wall before him, a whisper. ► “Kerosene,” he said, because the silence had lengthened, “is nothing but perfume to me.” Personification ► And then he came to the parlour where the great idiot monsters lay asleep with their white thoughts and their snowy dreams. ► Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. ► Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. ► A fountain of books sprang down upon Montag as he climbed shuddering up the sheer stair-well. ► With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world. ► He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.
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