Comprehensive English 4A Exam with
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"you know, I'm not afraid of you at all" - ✔✔Clarisse
"You are an odd one" - ✔✔Montag
"Happy! Of all the nonsense" - ✔✔Montag
what is irony, and what is ironic about what the firemen do? - ✔✔Irony is the use of words in
the opposite of the literal meaning. Firemen used to stop fries, but now they catch things on
fire.
"You never wash it off completely" and what is the meaning - ✔✔Montag, you never actually
get rid of the guilt from burning someone/s belongings
what are the seashells and what effect do they have on mildred - ✔✔the seashells are modern
day earbuds. they have the effect of calming Mildred down and taking her out of reality. For
example, she doesn't actually listen when Montag was talking to her.
"The room was not empty" and "The room was indeed empty" - ✔✔Paradox (there is actually
objects in the room, but no personality or feelings
self contradictory statement that may prove to be true ("the mechanical hound slept but did
not sleep") - ✔✔paradox
"It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them
telling us it's wine when it's not." - ✔✔metaphor (meaning teachers fill kids with info they
aren't sure is actually true, but nobody questions them)
, "he felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt b chemicals to a brittle
straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened
pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.
He could remember her no other way" - ✔✔direct characterization to Mildred
why are books burned according to beatty - ✔✔to limit discussion, disagreement, and conflict
in society
T or F
war is going on, and people barely seem to care
Mildred is happy and content with her life
young people spend their time seeking pleasure & instant gratification
witnessing what happens to the old woman burned with ehr books deeply upsets Montag
Montag decided to become a firemen as he was passionate about the job - ✔✔T, F, T, T, F
what is a hearth and salamander - ✔✔the floor of a fire place and reptile once believed to live
in fire without being consumer
if you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve - ✔✔metaphor (sand
representing knowledge)
"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if i talk long enough, it'll make
sense" - ✔✔Faber
"Books were only one type of receptable where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we
might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say,
how they stitched the patches of the universe together in one garment for us - ✔✔Faber
books are special and magical
books help us make sense of the complexity of the world
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"you know, I'm not afraid of you at all" - ✔✔Clarisse
"You are an odd one" - ✔✔Montag
"Happy! Of all the nonsense" - ✔✔Montag
what is irony, and what is ironic about what the firemen do? - ✔✔Irony is the use of words in
the opposite of the literal meaning. Firemen used to stop fries, but now they catch things on
fire.
"You never wash it off completely" and what is the meaning - ✔✔Montag, you never actually
get rid of the guilt from burning someone/s belongings
what are the seashells and what effect do they have on mildred - ✔✔the seashells are modern
day earbuds. they have the effect of calming Mildred down and taking her out of reality. For
example, she doesn't actually listen when Montag was talking to her.
"The room was not empty" and "The room was indeed empty" - ✔✔Paradox (there is actually
objects in the room, but no personality or feelings
self contradictory statement that may prove to be true ("the mechanical hound slept but did
not sleep") - ✔✔paradox
"It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them
telling us it's wine when it's not." - ✔✔metaphor (meaning teachers fill kids with info they
aren't sure is actually true, but nobody questions them)
, "he felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt b chemicals to a brittle
straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened
pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.
He could remember her no other way" - ✔✔direct characterization to Mildred
why are books burned according to beatty - ✔✔to limit discussion, disagreement, and conflict
in society
T or F
war is going on, and people barely seem to care
Mildred is happy and content with her life
young people spend their time seeking pleasure & instant gratification
witnessing what happens to the old woman burned with ehr books deeply upsets Montag
Montag decided to become a firemen as he was passionate about the job - ✔✔T, F, T, T, F
what is a hearth and salamander - ✔✔the floor of a fire place and reptile once believed to live
in fire without being consumer
if you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve - ✔✔metaphor (sand
representing knowledge)
"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if i talk long enough, it'll make
sense" - ✔✔Faber
"Books were only one type of receptable where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we
might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say,
how they stitched the patches of the universe together in one garment for us - ✔✔Faber
books are special and magical
books help us make sense of the complexity of the world
