The following passages together work as an example of ___________________.

"Lights flicked on and house doors opened all down the street, to watch the carnival set up. Montag and Beatty stared, one with dry satisfaction, the other with disbelief, at the house before them, this main ring in which torches would be juggled and fire eaten" (113).

"The crowd drew back into the houses; the great tents of the circus had slumped into charcoal and rubble and the show was well over" (117).

"The circus must go on, even with war beginning within the hour" (134).

The following passage works as an example of ___________________.

"[N]ow you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why."

Who says the following?

"[N]ow you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why."

Who says the following?

"Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now."

Who says the following?

"What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it."

Who says the following?

"We never burned right . . ."

Who says the following?

"Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob? There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm'd so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not!"

Who says the following?

"It's strange. I don't miss her, it's strange I don't feel much of anything. Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don't think I'll feel sad. It isn't right. Something must be wrong with me."

Who is the she being referred to in the following quotation?

"I think of her hands but I don't see them doing anything at all. They just hang there at her sides or they lay there on her lap or there's a cigarette in them, but that's all."

Who says the following?

"[W]e're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."

Who says the following?

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies [. . . ]. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched someway so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

The following passage has an example of ___________________.

"The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."

The following passage has an example of ___________________.

"There was a great hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove."

The following passage has an example of ___________________.

"The pains were spikes driven in the kneecap and then only darning needles and then only common ordinary safety pins, and after he had shagged along fifty more hops and jumps, filling his hand with slivers from the board fence, the prickling was like someone blowing a spray of scalding water on that leg."

The following passage has an example of ___________________.

"The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower."

The following passage has an example of ___________________.

"His mouth was sucked dry from running. His throat tasted of bloody iron."

The following passage helps develop what theme?

"Then he dressed in Faber's old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away. . . . [H]e walked out in the river . . . . and he was swept away in the dark. . . . He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felts as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new."