Imagery, metaphor, simile & tone.
What is Imaginative
Ray Bradbury
Who is the author of The Pedestrian?
Leonard Mead
Who is the Protagonist?
Harvard Graduates
Who was the audience?
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?
Ethos, Pathos & Logos
Imaginative fiction
What is the text type?
it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside
What is simile or imagery ?
2008
When was FBFII delivered?
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?
What rhetorical question?
Anecdotes, allusions, observations & informal narrative voice.
What is Discursive?
1951
When was the Pedestrian Written?
"What's up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7, Channel 9?
What is rhetorical question?
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction
What is the idea of growing up
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?
Thesis, arguments, evidence and analysis.
What is a critical response?
(essay)
What genre is The Pedestrian?
"Walking, just walking, walking?" "Yes, sir."
What is repetition and/or tone?
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?
"Quixotic" , "Paradoxical", "Impoverished", "Parenthesis" & "Vicissitudes"
What is sophisticated language?
Facts, data, statistics & objective voice.
What is informative?
Post World War II
When was the pedestrian written? / was a reaction to?
He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town
What is personification?
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced
What is the idea of Imagination?
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?