

In the story, There Will Come Soft Rains, the use of personification is to build up the story due to the lack of characters in the story. The first tool that is found readily in Bradbury’s stories is personification. 2 Tuesday March 24th Test Review: PersonificationStudents who missed the test will write today in Study Juxtaposition Zone and read Pedestrian for homework. Light - "flickers" in the houses (34) Christmas tree simile in Leonard's face from the car in LM's house The message to be aware of the consequences technology can bring to this world. Motifs Insects - "glimmers of firefly light" from the televisions cars like scarab beetles LM stands entranced like a night moth (35) the light holds him "fixed like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest" (35).
PERSONIFICATION IN THE PEDESTRIAN FULL
He knows that he doesn't stand a chance of continuing to live a full and active life anymore. This simile points out that Mead has given in and given up. simile,onomatopoeia, personification, or alliteration. "He walked like a man suddenly drunk" (36). THE PEDESTRIAN FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE by Ray Bradbury Name: Read the sentences below from the text. This simile points out the dullness and inactivity of the world in which Leonard Mead lives. Of course, the correct answer is personification, since the poem speaks of Time as a winged thief, who is stealing away the authors youth. "But now these highways too were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance" (35). This extended simile points out that the light is not only inside Mead's house, but inside him as well. Similes The frost in the air "made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside you could feel the cold light going on and off, all the branches filled with invisible snow" (34). Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like 'Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house', 'this one particular house had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window a lout yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness', 'The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest' and more.
