hotel room

Question 1

“I watched”

Answer 1

personal experience – outsider- observing the events later described. helpless in the face of such scenes.

Question 2

“like a damaged insect”

Answer 2

simile – connotations of

insignificance, weak unpleasant creature.

Question 3

“dentist’s drill”

Answer 3

metaphor – shape – also connotations of
discomfort and fear, as many people
associate dentists with places of pain.

Question 4

“uncivilised darkness”

Answer 4

word choice suggests that the night
brings the worst parts of
society out. “darkness” –
connotations of evil.

Question 5

midnight is not

so easily defeated.

Answer 5

personification shows constant battle

between dark and light, and the evil will always find ways to affect society.

Question 6

The frontier is never

somewhere else.

Answer 6

enjambment – frontier- battle ground- nature of society and the seemingly inherent evil in humans always be a problem – illustrated by wild west imagery - brutality