Hotel Room 12th Floorn Flashcards

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This morning I watch from here

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Word choice
Suggest speaker is passive observer

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A helicopter smirking like a damaged insect

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Simile

Helicopter movement is compared to those of a dead insect - possible danger

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That Jumbo sized dentist drill and lean ding on the rook of the PanAm skyscrpaer

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Metaphor
Something painful and frightening

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But now midnight has come in foreign places

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Word choice
Midnight become da perosn
And is unknown

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The uncivilised darkness is shot at by a million lit windows all ups and a crossed

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Personification
Darkness is not welcome it is something unknown

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But midnight is not so easily defeated

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Metaphor
Midnight becomes a foe or enemy
Snese of helplessness is reached through recognition of the situation

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I lie in bed between a radio and television set

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Structure

He is no longe r standing at the window

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Hear the wildest of Warhoops
Continually

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Word choice

Wildest war hoops shoes their is unknown and dart noises

City become s a villen environment

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Police cars and ambulances raging to the broken lines the harsh screaming from cold water flats

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Word choice

Broken bones and harsh screaming are been disturbing and distressing

Cold water = no hot water in flat

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The blood glazed on the sidewalks

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Imagery

The comparison of blood as a sheet that covers the side walks
Unpleasant

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