Annotation Sheet – Fahrenheit 451

**Students should read the novel with the following literary devices in mind and annotate**

(If you don’t know what something means, look it up)

*Theme *Characterization *Humor *Symbolism *Satire

*Attitudes of the author *Attitudes of the Character

*Rhetorical/Language devices/imagery

*Comparisons & Contrasts:

· Past and present

· Old people and young people

· Justice and injustice

· Innocence and experience

· Light and shade

· Danger and security

· Men vs. women

Characterization: Yellow Symbolism: Pink

M=Guy Montag Titles of each section

MM=Mildred (Millie) Montag Colors: orange, black, red, white

C=Clarisse Books

CB=Captain Beatty Salamander

F=Faber The number 451

GR=Granger Phoenix

SB = Stoneman and Black Fire

P=Mrs. Phelps Mechanical Hound

B=Mrs. Bowles Parlor walls

Mirrors

Characters as allegorical figures

Themes: Green

Censorship

Freedom of expression

Public Apathy

Violence in society

Conformity vs. individuality

Importance of remembering and understanding history

Machines as helpers or hindrances to humans

Man’s search for what is the truth

Conflict between established authority and innovative intelligence

Language Devices/Imagery: Blue

Syntax (sentence Structure)

Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, allusion, irony etc)

Diction (Choice of words, speech-colloquial, formal, etc)