These text types use the following techniques
The Pedestrian Context
The Pedestrian Techniques
The Fringe Benefits of Failure and Importance of Imagination Context & ideas
FBFIIC techniques
100

Imagery, metaphor, simile & tone.

What is Imaginative

100

Ray Bradbury

Who is the author of The Pedestrian?

100

Leonard Mead

Who is the Protagonist?

100

Harvard Graduates

Who was the audience?

100

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.

What is direct address?

200

Ethos, Pathos & Logos

What is persuasive?
200

Imaginative fiction

What is the text type?

200

it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside

What is simile or imagery ?

200

2008

When was FBFII delivered?

200

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?

What rhetorical question?

300

Anecdotes, allusions, observations & informal narrative voice.

What is Discursive?

300

1951

When was the Pedestrian Written?

300

"What's up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7, Channel 9?

What is rhetorical question?

300

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction

What is the idea of growing up

300

And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since.

What is anecdote?

400

Thesis, arguments, evidence and analysis. 

What is a critical response?
(essay)

400
Speculative Fiction

What genre is The Pedestrian?

400

"Walking, just walking, walking?" "Yes, sir." 

What is repetition and/or tone?

400

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

What is the idea of struggle?

400

"Quixotic" , "Paradoxical", "Impoverished", "Parenthesis" & "Vicissitudes"

What is sophisticated language?

500

Facts, data, statistics & objective voice. 

What is informative?

500

Post World War II

When was the pedestrian written? / was a reaction to?

500

He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town

What is personification?

500

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced

What is the idea of Imagination?

500

I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

What is allusion / intertextual reference?

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