Poems Flashcards
Police cars and ambulances
Word choice
“Police cars and ambulances”
Connotations are loud and fast
In context, this suggests that there that much violence that police and ambulances are needed
“No stockades can keep the midnight out”
Personification
“Can keep the midnight out”
Personification of midnight
Connotations of midnight are darkness and evil
In context, this suggests that no matter how much you try and stop the violence it will keep happening
“A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect”
Simile
“Helicopter skirting like a damaged insect “
Helicopter compared to an insect
Connotations of insect are small and tiny
In context, this suggests that the Empire State Building is that big it makes a helicopter look small
“The wildest of war whoops continually ululating through glittering canyons and gulches”
Alliteration
“Wildest of wharwhoops”
To speed up the reader
In context, this suggests that New York is like the Wild West with all the violence
“When he said ‘see you babe’ to his wife he hoped it,he truly hoped it”
Repitition
“He hoped it, he truly hoped it”
To emphasise his feelings
In context, this suggests that he really hopes he is able to go home and see his wife
“And who would have to be his victims”
Word choice
“Victim”
Connotations are not to blame, suffering and unfair to you
In context this suggests that he has to be very violent if he chooses to by making the criminals his victims
“Thin tissue over violence”
Metaphor
“I him tissue over violence”
Peace compared to tissue paper
Conns of tissue paper are thin, fragile and easily damaged
In context this suggests that the peace in the city is easily broken and so there is lots of violence
“Should the tissue tear, should he plunge through”
Alliteration
“Tissue tear”
To speed up the reader
In context this suggests a sort of intro to the violence in the city
“Crickets being friendly”
Personification
“Crickets being friendly”
Personification of crickets
Connotations of crickets are small and noisy
In context this suggests that the crickets are even welcoming him
“Absolute darkness”
Word choice
“Darkness”
Connotations are black and no light
In context this suggests that this is a very rural and new experience for him
“Paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel”
Line length
“Paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel”
To emphasise length of something
In context this suggests how long it took her to make something with the spinning wheel
“Very loud and very fast”
Repitition
“Very loud and very fast”
Function is to speed up the reader
In context this suggests that she could speak very loud and fast
