Part 1 Flashcards

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Great python

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The fire hose, which resembles a great serpent, a key image in the novel, which serves as a reminder of Adam and Eve temptation to disobey God in the garden of Eden

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2
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451

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Temp books burn

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3
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Pigeon winged books

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The box come alive and flap their wings as they’re thrown in to the fire. This connection between books and birds continues to get the tax, symbolizing Enlightenment through reading.

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4
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Black beetle colored helmet

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Beetle with prominent black horns is connected with satan. Vehicles in this society also resemble beetles

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5
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Salamander

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Visual representation of fire. In mythology it can live through a fire without burning

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Phoenix

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a mythical multicolored bird of Arabia with a long history of artistic and literary symbolism, the Phoenix is one of a kind. At the end of its 500 year edstence, it perches on its nest of spices and sings until sunlight ignites the mass. After the body is consumed in flames, a worm emerges from the ashes and develops into the next Phoenix.

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7
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Clarisse

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Name develops from Latin for brightest

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8
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Guy montag

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Name suggest two significant possibilities, guy Fawkes, instigator of a plot to blow up the English house of parliament in 1605, and Montag, a trademark of mead, an American paper company, which makes stationary and also the company that makes furnaces

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Man in the moon

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Perception of children, that the contours of the moon service, our face, which peers down at them. The image reflects the oppressive nature of a society that burns books

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Moonstones

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Opal with a pearly luster. Connected to mercury, the mythological guide who leads souls to the underworld.

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Black cobra

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Suction snake that pumps Mildred stomach repeats the earlier image of the python. The impersonal handyman have eyes of puff adders. The fact that it has an eye suggest a sinister and invasive fiber optic tube that examines the inside of the bodies organs between the soul.

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12
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Electronic bees

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Futuristic, seashell ear thimbles, which block out thoughts, and replace them with mindless entertainment

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13
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TV parlor

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A multi dimension of media family, which draws the viewer into the action, thereby replacing the viewers, real family

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14
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That’s what the lady said

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Snappy stage come back, which Mildred uses in place of normal conversation

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15
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Proboscis

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Snout or nose

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16
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Morphine or procaine

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Hey sedative and an anesthetic

17
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Beatty

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The fire, captain, who baits Montag, is well named

18
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November 4

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Fireman play cards early on mischief. day, the eve of guy, Fawkes day, when bonfires and burning of guys in effigy commemorate his gunpowder plot. An abortive attempt to destroy James the first and his protest in supporters, who supressed Catholics.

19
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Stoneman and black

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The Firemans name suggest the hardness of their hearts, and the color of their skin and hair from contact with smoke

20
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Benjamin Franklin

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Founder of America’s first fire company in Boston of 1736

21
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Say, the man, Master Radley; we shall this day light, such a candle, in gods grace, in England, as I trust you’ll never be put out

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Bishops, Hugh Latimer and Nicolas Ridley, protestant supporters of the lady queen Jane Grey, we’re burned at the stake for heresy at Oxford on October 16 of 1555. There refused to endorse, Queen Mary, Catholic, claiming that she was a legitimate daughter of Henry the eighth, born after he married his late brothers wife. Later captain Beatty, recites a latter portion of the quotation and indicates that he knows something about history.

22
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Cricket

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English slang for Fairplay

23
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

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From chapter 1 dream thorn, a collection of essays by Alexander Smith, Glasgow PlaceMaker

24
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Tower of babel

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In Genesis, 11 1–9 30 the mythic explanation of how Noah’s children came to speak different languages. The word babble derives from babel.

25
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Centrifuge

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The vision of being spun in a great gyro delineates montag’s impression of separation from reality.

26
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Cacophony

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Mindless noise

27
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Pratfall

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A sight gag from vaudeville, a form of low comedy, in which the clown humiliate himself by falling clumsily on his bottom

28
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Automatic reflex

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Beatty is describing how people stop using their brains and began depending on their functions that require no thought

29
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Theremin

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Soundproofing instrument, named for a Russian inventor, Leon theremin, activate, by moving the hand between two electric terminals

30
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Our fingers in the Dike

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Allusion to the legend about the Dutch boy, who performed and Noble, selfless public service in holding back the Sea, by keeping his finger in a hole in the Dike

31
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It is computer, that 11,000 persons have at several times suffer death rather than submit to break the eggs at the smaller end

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Jonathan swift illustrates the pettiness of human controversy in book one, chapter 4 of Gulliver’s travels. The satire found in this writing, emphasizes the absurd extent to which society will go to enforce conformity.