Imagery and stuff for the Pedestrian

Imagery I find appealing

1. When Bradbury is describing the misty November evening, the "grassy seams" in the sidewalk and the "buckling concrete". 

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

3. "There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and 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." 

4. "During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab-beetles a fain incense puttering from their exhausts, these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance." 

5. "... this one particular house had all of it's electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, a square and arm in the cool darkness." 

Figurative Language examples

Wait, what? Figurative is kinda like what i picked out?? Umm....

1. "Sudden grey phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomb-like building was still open."

2. "...with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country." 

3. "...not unlike a night moth..."

4. "The moon was high and clear among the stars and the houses were grey and silent."

5. "The car moved down the empty river-bed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty sidewalks, and no sound and no motion all the rest of the chill November night." 

The use of figurative language in the story helps it move along because it paints a clear picture of things around the main character. It gives us a good idea of what this world is like, how everyone in their homes is basically dead and brainwashed by the TV's.