I need an example of personification from the story "The Pedestrian".

Personification is a type of figure of speech where a writer gives an inanimate thing, idea, or animal human or living characteristics.  By doing this, objects appear to have the ability to act human or alive.  Bradbury is a master of figures of speech in his writing, and “The Pedestrian” is full of all types of figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and personification. 

Here are a few I found in the text of the...

Personification is a type of figure of speech where a writer gives an inanimate thing, idea, or animal human or living characteristics.  By doing this, objects appear to have the ability to act human or alive.  Bradbury is a master of figures of speech in his writing, and “The Pedestrian” is full of all types of figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and personification. 

Here are a few I found in the text of the story.

“He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town.”  The intersection of the highway stood, a human ability.

“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 faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions.”  Here the highway and flowing traffic is compared to a giant insect and scarab beetles, comparing something not alive, the highway, to a living insect.

“The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.”  Here the flashlight of the police car holds Mead transfixed like a bug pinned in a specimen case.  The light holding Mead is the example of personification.

“The police car sat in the center of the street with its radio throat faintly humming.”  The radio of the police car is compared to a throat humming.