Poetic Prose Project for Fahrenheit 451 Due ___________________

Ray Bradbury used figurative language throughout his novel to create mental pictures or images in his readers’ minds. As a result, his prose often sounds much like poetry.

Part One: On notebook paper, create your own chart of poetic prose from the novel. Use blue or black ink. Do not write on the back. Skip a line between each example. To avoid using my quotes, don’t use quotes from the first fourteen pages of the novel. On line A, write the page number and the quotation. On line B, write a paraphrase of the quote. FIND FOUR OF EACH TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Place the four similes on page one, the four metaphors on page two, and the four examples of personification on page three.

Part Two: Choose one of your quotes and make a visual no larger than 9 X 12 expressing its meaning. Neatly write your quote on your visual. Do not put your visual on notebook paper.

A SIMILE is a figure of speech in which like or as or similar words are used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas. “Alex is as bright as Jason” is a comparison, not a simile. “Alex is as bright as a light bulb” is a simile.

A METAPHOR is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Unlike a simile, a metaphor implies a comparison between two basically unlike ideas. Example: Alexander is the sunshine of my day.

PERSONIFICATION is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics, or the qualities of life are given to something lifeless. Example: An angry sun beat down upon the men.

1. A. page 3 “He strode in a swarm of fireflies.” B. paraphrase:

2. A. page 5 “Her dress was white and it whispered.” B. paraphrase:

3. A. page 12 “…the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest.”

B. paraphrase:

4. A. page 13 “two moonstones buried in a creek of clear water”

B. paraphrase:

5. A. page 14 “They had two machines, really. One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well…”

B. paraphrase: