Fahrenheit 451 Flashcards

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a leading character in a story who, unlike a traditional hero, lacks concetional heroic qualitites such as idelaism, courage, and morality😂

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anti hero

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a sudden realization

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epiphany

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about a future that is bleak, darks and dreary

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dystopic novel

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behavior that oberys the accepted rules of a society or group, and is the same as that of most people

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conformity

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communist

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USSR

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democratic

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USA

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government or political group using flase or half true information to persueade people to believe with them

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propaganda

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soemthing that contradicts itself but is true

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paradox

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the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconveient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor

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censorship

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without the ability to think about what we’re doing, we’ll be led to do wrong

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ignorance of knowledge

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The novel is written during

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Cold War

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what are symbols found in Fahrenheit 451

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blood
fire
hearth and salamander

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how does the government mentally and physically control people’s thoughts?

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through technology

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What new technology was broadcast for the first time in the 1950s

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television

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what did the Soviet Union launch that made people in the US paranoid

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Sputnik

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who launched a witch hunt against people that were Communist

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joseph mccarthy

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Which literary conventions does Fahrenheit 451 follow to convey a message that an oppressive government is oppressive to society

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science fiction

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what literary prise did Bradbury win in 2004`

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Pulitzer Prize

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sickly wife

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Mildred

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English professor

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Faber

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name that is also a paper company

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Guy Montag

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captain of the fire department

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Beaty

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17 year old outcast

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Clarisse

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leader of the Book People

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Granger