Brooklyn Cop Flashcards
1
Q
“Built like a gorilla but less timid”
A
Simile
2
Q
“Thick fleshed, steak coloured”
A
Compared to meat
3
Q
“With two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble”
A
Metaphor
4
Q
“He walks the sidewalk and the thin tissue over violence”
A
Metaphor
5
Q
“This morning, when he said “see you babe” to his wife, he hoped it, he really hoped it”
A
Repetition
6
Q
“He is a gorilla”
A
Extended metaphor
7
Q
“Should the tissue tear”
A
Alliteration emphasises extended metaphor
8
Q
“What clubbings, what gunshots”
A
Repetition
9
Q
“Who would be him, gorilla with a nightstick”
A
Extended metaphor
10
Q
“Whose home is a place he might, this time, never get back to?”
A
Question
11
Q
“And who would have to be his victims?”
A
Question
Word choice “victims” suggests violence
12
Q
“Gunshots between Phoebe’s Whamburger and Louie’s place”
A
Onomatopoeia
