Section 1: There are numerous amounts of figurative language in this novel, one of them being irony. " The flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house " ( Bradbury 3 ). In the real world, firemen are known for putting out fires, instead they are known for starting fires.
Section 2: " Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there by fiery steel " ( Bradbury 36 ). This quote exemplifies imagery by illustrating that the line read by Montag stayed with him even though he only got to scan it.
Section 3: " They fell like slaughtered birds, and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies " ( Bradbury 37). This quote actually includes both a simile and imagery. The simile compares people to slaughtered birds and helps visualize the people falling like a bird being shot or killed. The imagery makes the quote more effective by using specific terms to strengthen the sentence.