"I've hit the bulls-eye. Look at that sick look on your face."

"Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll."

"The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source."

"Another year ticked by in a single hour."

"The day was brightening all about them as if a pink lamp had been given more wick."

"A beetle-taxi hissed to the curb."

"I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine."

"The bombers crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

"The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots, as quietly as spiders."

"The way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy discs."

"Scare the living daylights out of them!"

"I'll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me."

"Each [page] becomes a black butterfly."

"The floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm."

"The train radio vomited upon Montag."

"Her dress was white and it whispered."

"He wore his happiness like a mask."

"I didn't do that. Never in a billion years."

"Montag, you shin that pole like a bird up a tree."

What two things are being compared in this simile?

"His hand had turned thief."

What is suggested by this metaphor?

"We know how to nip most of them in the bud."

What does this idiom mean?

"The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in his air."

Which word for the quote above suggests an onomatopoeia?

"She was like the eager watcher of a marionette show."

"The windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world."

"A fountain of books sprang down upon Montag."