Def Fahrenheit 451: Imagery

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Term: Imagery

Definition: The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures, or

images, for the reader (Literary Terms 5).

Example: In part three, "Burning Bright", Montag returns one of the books to Captain Beatty.

However, Montag's wife and her friends put in an alarm because they know he has books, so

Montag is forced to burn his house. In his ear is a radio that Montag can communicate with

Faber through, and when Beatty finds this out he threatens to find Faber, so Montag kills him. He

also kills the other two firemen, and runs so no one will find him. While he is running, he listens

from his seashell, and sees people watching the hunt in their parlor rooms. He also hears them

say to all go outside so that he cannot escape. However when they go to open the door at the

count of ten, this is what he expected "He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into

yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray

animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues, and gray

thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face" (Bradbury 139).

Function: Imagery is when a picture is formed mentally from what you read or hear. Bradbury

uses imagery to describe Montag's imagination of what people