Hotel Room, 12th Floor Flashcards
1
Q
like a damaged insect
A
- simile showing the sound it makes, can’t move properly,
vulnerable + how big the building is
2
Q
Empire State Building
A
- imagery showing materialism + capitalism
3
Q
dentist’s drill
A
- alliteration unsettling sound + feeling
4
Q
Panam skyscraper
A
- imagery showing materialism + capitalism
5
Q
midnight has come in
A
- personification comparing MIDNIGHT to a person
entering a room + suggests a frightening tone
6
Q
from FOREIGN places
A
- WC of FOREIGN
- suggests a sinister/unknown
tone
7
Q
uncivilised darkness
A
- personification comparing DARKNESS to an
unsophisticated person + suggests an evil, threatening
tone
8
Q
SHOT at by a million lit windows
A
- metaphor has connotations of death + making us
imagine gun violence + the American culture - artificial light contrasts with Aunt Julia where its
complete darkness showing a feeling of safety +
a non-materialised way of living
9
Q
ups and acrosses
A
- metaphorical of Jesus dying on a cross + suggests that
violence can’t be shut out because of society
10
Q
But midnight is not,
so easily defeated
A
- metaphor linking back to the idea of progress and
civilising the American people
11
Q
radio and television set
A
- WC suggests the city
never sleeps, a constant, unsettling sound - symbols of progress + wealth + materialism in
comparison with Aunt Julia
12
Q
the wildest of warwhoops
A
- alliteration of the ‘‘W, W, W’’ suggests a sound like a
battle cry from the American Indians
13
Q
ululating
A
- WC suggesting the sound the American Indians made (without words) from western films
14
Q
glittering canyons and gulches
A
- alliteration
- gulches meaning deep valley
15
Q
police cars and ambulances
A
- WC shows link to warwhoops + replaces it as
they are similar sounds but in modern day America
instead
16
Q
broken bones
A
- alliteration of harsh ‘B, B’ sound emphasises the
violence, danger and pain
17
Q
screaming
A
- WC highlights violence, terror, shock, distress + people
in danger
18
Q
coldwater flats
A
- WC of ‘‘coldwater’’ suggests poverty +
contrasts with the Empire State Building
19
Q
glazed
A
- WC has connotations of spread
- makes you imagine dried up but sticky food
- suggesting some of it has been there for a while + the
blood just keeps building up as more people get killed
20
Q
never + no
A
- WC of these harsh words
- showing poets opinion that,
evil is still within us so there’s no sense of being better
(poet feels negative about ‘civilised’ society)
21
Q
stockades
A
- WC has connotations of a barricade
