Scottish Text Poetry Quotes

Question 1

Brooklyn Cop 1/8 - quote describing him first off

Answer 1

“Built like a gorilla”

Question 2

Brooklyn cop 2/8 - quote comparing him to meat

Answer 2

“Steak-coloured”

Question 3

Brooklyn cop 3/8 - quote describing the separation of violence and civilisation

Answer 3

“The thin tissue over violence”

Question 4

Brooklyn cop 4/8 - quote showing his human qualities

Answer 4

“See you, have”

Question 5

Brooklyn cop 5/8 - quote describing his nature as a person

Answer 5

“He is a gorilla”

Question 6

Brooklyn cop 6/8 - quote about the separation between violence and civilisation will do

Answer 6

“Should the tissue tear”

Question 7

Brooklyn cop 7/8 - quote about what he may be setting out to do on his patrols

Answer 7

“And who would be who have to be his victims” lack of punctuation speeds it up

Question 8

Brooklyn cop 8/8 - quote creating sympathy for him when he leaves his wife and home

Answer 8

“He hopes it, he truly hoped it.” Repetition.

Question 9

Hotel Room 1/7 - quote about how the helicopter is behaving

Answer 9

“a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect”

Question 10

Hotel Room 2/7 - quote about what the empire state building looks like

Answer 10

“jumbo sized dentist’s drill”

Question 11

Hotel Room 3/7 - quote about what MacCaig did to try and drown out the violence outside

Answer 11

“between a radio and television set”

Question 12

Hotel Room 4/7 - quote about what the violence sounds like

Answer 12

“wildest of warwhoops”

Question 13

Hotel Room 5/7 - quote about what the blood has done

Answer 13

“glazed”

Question 14

Hotel Room 6/7 - quote about what the empire state building is faking

Answer 14

“and no stockades can keep the midnight out”

Question 15

Hotel Room 7/7 - quote about what the streets of New York look like

Answer 15

“canyons and gulches”

Question 16

Assisi 1/8 - quote about the dwarf’s hands

Answer 16

“hands on backwards”

Question 17

Assisi 2/8 - quote about how the dwarf was sitting

Answer 17

“slumped like a half-filled sack”

Question 18

Assisi 3/8 - quote about what the dwarf’s legs look like

Answer 18

“twisted”

Question 19

Assisi 4/8 - quote about MacCaig’s mocking tone of priest

Answer 19

“how clever”

Question 20

Assisi 5/8 - quote about the sound the tourists were making

Answer 20

“clucking”

Question 21

Assisi 6/8 - quote about the movement of the tourists

Answer 21

“fluttering”

Question 22

Assisi 7/8 - quote about using metaphor about the appearance of the dwarf

Answer 22

“ruined temple”

Question 23

Assisi 8/8 - quote about the details of the dwarf to shock the reader

Answer 23

“whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head, whose lopsided mouth”

Question 24

Aunt Julia 1/6 - quote showing how MacCaig is remembering her

Answer 24

“very loud and very fast”

Question 25

Aunt Julia 2/6 - quote showing MacCaig’s thought process

Answer 25

“I could not answer her - I could not understand her”

Question 26

Aunt Julia 3/6 - quote describing how she handled the yarn

Answer 26

“marvellously”

Question 27

Aunt Julia 4/6 - quote about how MacCaig remembered her and what daily tasks she did

Answer 27

“she was water flouncing into them”

Question 28

Aunt Julia 5/6 - quote showing how MacCaig feels as he talks about where his aunt is buried

Answer 28

“learned a little, she lay”

Question 29

Aunt Julia 6/6 - quote showing how MacCaig feels about himself and the modern world for forgetting about her

Answer 29

“questions unanswered”

Question 30

Basking Shark 1/7 - quote about how MacCaig sees the monster to begin with

Answer 30

“on a rock”

Question 31

Basking Shark 2/7 - quote about what the shark does that shows its power

Answer 31

“rise”

Question 32

Basking shark 3/7 - quote about how MacCaig feels when this is happening

Answer 32

“once (too often)”

Question 33

Basking shark 4/7 - quote about how intelligent MacCaig saw the shark as being

Answer 33

“matchbox brain”

Question 34

Basking shark 5/7 - quote about how the shark comes from the same origins as we do

Answer 34

“branch of his family tree”

Question 35

Basking shark 6/7 - quote about what is being washed up as the shark moves

Answer 35

“dirt”

Question 36

Basking shark 7/7 - quote about how MacCaig is reflecting on his experience

Answer 36

“So who’s the monster?”