Literary Devices
Plot
Setting
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
"The car hesistated and gave a whirring click.." is an example of?
Personification
100

Why did the police car pull over for Mead?

Because he was walking.

100
Mr. Mead was alone in the world of A.D....?
2053
100
What are scarab beetles?
Large brilliantly colored beetles
100
Who wrote 'The Pedestrian?'
Ray Bradbury
200
"It cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a christmas tree..." is an example of?
A Metaphor
200
What does the police car say in response to Mr. Mead's profession?
It said, "No Profession."
200

What technique? 

'...sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.'

Simile

200

What does 'intermittent' mean? 


coming and going at intervals, occasional 

200
Who is the main character?
Mr. Leonard Mead
300

'It smelled of riveted steel. It smelled of harsh antiseptic; it smelled too clean'

What technique? 

sensory description and/or repetition

300

Why is Mead unmarried? 

'Nobody wanted me.' 

300

What technique- 'tomb-like building' and what it suggests? 

Simile, the area is dead, lifeless 

300

What does 'jockeying' mean? 

jostling, struggle/fight against others

300
What type of genre does 'The Pedestrian' fit in?
Science Fiction
400

'"Time for a dozen assorted murders? A quiz? A revue? A comedian falling off the stage?”'

What technique? 

Dialogue

400

Where does the police car take Mead? 

Psychiatric Centre for Research on Regressive Tendencies

400

What is being described and what does it symbolise? 'every window a loud yellow illumination'

Mead's house and it symbolises how he is awake and aware of the world around him

400

What does 'skeletal' mean? 

like/resembling a skeleton

400
How did the author describe the people in the story?
Dead
500

"...the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house..." is an example of?

Alliteration

500

What, apart from the 'lone police car', manage and control society?

'the dogs in intermittent squads'

500

What is Mead's address? 

Eleven South Saint James Street.

500

What does 'alibi' mean? 

proof that a crime has not been committed 

500

Name a key theme

conformity vs. non conformity, isolation/loneliness, technology taking over, societal control etc. 


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