aidos
alliteration
allusion
arete
assonance
ate
authoritarianism
band (characters)
band (important symbolism)
band (theme)
beast from air” / symbolism:
cask (characters)
cask (important symbolism)
cask (theme)
characterization
clue
culprit
deduction
describe faber’s device.
describe montag’s tv room.
describe the help she receives
dice
did beatty want to die?
disturbing thing after the pig encounter:
dramatic irony
external conflict
faber thinks he is a coward — is he?
faber’s definition of firemen?
foolish decision jack makes:
foreshadowing
horatian
horror
how are books compared to birds?
how biguns define a “proper chief”:
how do the wanderers “become” books?
how does mildred react after she wakes up?
how does montag get out of the city?
how is clarisse different from mildred?
how is montag’s house different from clarisse’
hubris
hunters’ behavior after the kill:
hypocritical irony in treatment of piggy:
importance of the dentifrice commercial?
internal conflict
irony of the boys’ rescue:
isolation
jack
jack’s behavior & foreshadowing:
juvenalian
kleos
leisure to think (missing from society)
major characters: lord of the flies
masque (characters)
masque (important symbolism)
masque (theme)
meaning of piggy’s statement about fear:
meaning of the title?
meaning of “sharpened a stick at both ends”:
metaphor
moira
montag’s comments about clarisse?
montag’s feelings about burning his house?
montag’s thoughts about beatty after killing him?
motif
nostos
personification
piggy
protagonist
quality information (missing from society)
ralph
ralph & piggy’s reaction to simon’s death:
red herring
setting
significance of the encounter with the piglet:
significance of the “snake-thing”/“beastie”
simile
situational irony
sophrosyne
symbolic meaning of the conch’s destruction:
symbolism of the conch / “sound of the shell”:
terror
the boys’ foolish method to find ralph:
the right to act on knowledge (missing from society)
the “beast” the boys kill:
theme
thunder (characters)
thunder (important symbolism)
thunder (theme)
tone
veldt (characters)
veldt (important symbolism)
veldt (theme)
verbal irony
what book of the bible does montag become?
what do the “firemen” do for a living?
what does faber tell montag about books?
what does mildred do all day?
what does “you never wash it off completely” (kerosene) mean sym
what happens to montag’s city?
what happens to simon / lord of the flies:
what is the hound’s reaction to montag?
what is the mechanical hound and its purpose?
what is unusual about how the men help her?
what piggy’s glasses represent:
who does montag meet on the way home?
why do the police stop chasing montag?
why does mildred need help?
why does mildred turn montag in?
why does montag go to see faber?
why hunters paint themselves
why introduce clarisse before mildred?
why is clarisse considered “anti-social”?
why is mildred worried about being caught with books?
why jack and littluns fear the “beastie”
why recovering piggy’s specs fails
why roger pushes the rock:
why rules matter to ralph:
xenia
“denying you’re a squirrel” line