Quotes and techniques Flashcards
A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
Simile, word choice ‘damaged’
It’s uncivilized darkness is shot at by a million lit windows
Word choice ‘uncivilized’ ‘shot’, metaphor, hyperbole ‘million’
I lie in bed, in between a radio and a television set
Word choice ‘between’
Ambulances racing to the broken bones
Personification, word choice ‘racing’, synecdoche ‘broken bones’
And no stockades can keep the midnight out
Word choice ‘stockades’, metaphor
Built like a gorilla
Simile
Thin tissue over violence
Metaphor
He is a gorilla to whom ‘hiya honey’ is no cliche
Metaphor, word choice ‘cliché’
Should he plunge through into violence, what clubbings, what gunshots
Word choice ‘he’ ‘plunge’, list
And who would be who have to be his victims?
Word choice ‘victims’, question, incorrect syntax
Sat slumped like a half filled sack
Simile
Outside the three tiers of churches
Word choice ‘outside’, juxtaposition
Clucking contentedly
Metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, word choice ‘contentedly’
Ruined temple outside
Metaphor, word choice ‘ruined’, repetition ‘outside’
A voice as sweet as a child’s
Simile
