Unit 2 "Meet Ray Bradbury" Summative Exam Study Guide

I. Ray Bradbury The Man, The Author

A. The Cold War & The Martian Chronicles
B. His Works

1. "All Summer in A Day"
2. "The Flying Machine"
3. "The Pedestrian"
4. "The Other Me"
5. Fahrenheit 451


II. Fahrenheit 451

A. Vocabulary

1 olfactory
2 proclivities
3 titillation
4 odious
5 tallow
6 trajectory
7 dictum
8 ravenous
9 ballistics
10 imperceptibly
11 patronage
12 intuitively
13 arsonists
14 aesthetic
15 contemptible
16 insidious
17 linguists
18 oblivion
19 teem
20 valise
21 incessantly
22 incomprehensible

B. Fiction v. Nonfiction

C. Comprehension: Review all Reading Guides

III. Literary Elements

B. Theme

C. Imagery

D. Similes & Metaphors

E. Novels & Stories