Fahrenheit 451 Outline Of Pgs 99-101
Essay Preview: Fahrenheit 451 Outline Of Pgs 99-101
Report this essay
Introduction
Catch/attention grabber: Have verbal things ever made you feel an emotion?
Bridge: My excerpt is located on pages 99 through 101 in Ray Bradburys
Fahrenheit 451.
Thesis: Ray Bradbury uses sound devices, irony, and figure of speech in order to
Develop the mood of sadness and loneliness
Sound Devices
Rhyme
“Ah, love, let us be true, to one another! For the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, now certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night”
ABBACDDCC
Only 4 end sounds
In the rest of the novel, use of rhyme is small. His choice to include a poem with a lot of rhymes is because he wants to cause a shift to motivate a character, Mrs. Bowles, to speak of her opinions. Her opinions lead to the theme of the novel which is censorship because she shows that if many people decide to speak out against literature, all of it will eventually become censored.
Consonance
“standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.”
In that quotation, the “S” sound was heard 10 times, the “H”, 7, and the “T”, 7.
Onomatopoeia
“Sh, sh.”
The sounds are used to calm down Clara, the woman who is crying.
Repetition
“Ive always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness.”
Repetition of the word, poetry
Also has rhythm.
Irony
Paradox
“The room was blazing hot, he was all