Techniques

Question 1

Basking Shark- 2 metaphors

Answer 1

To stub an oar on a rock
Shook on a wrong branch of his family tree

Question 2

Basking shark- rhetorical question

Answer 2

So whose the monster?

Question 3

Basking shark- 2 word choice (full quote)

Answer 3

That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain
He displaced more than water

Question 4

Brooklyn Cop- simile

Answer 4

Built like a gorilla but less timid

Question 5

Brooklyn Cop- 3 metaphors (full quotes)

Answer 5

thin tissue over violence
He is a gorilla
gorilla with a nightstick

Question 6

Brooklyn Cop- word choice

Answer 6

plunge through into violence

Question 7

Assisi- simile

Answer 7

slumped like a half-filled sack

Question 8

Assisi- word choice (full quotes)

Answer 8

goodness of God and the suffering of His son
ruined temple
A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly

Question 9

Assisi- metaphor

Answer 9

ruined temple

Question 10

Assisi- list

Answer 10

whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head

Question 11

Hotel Room, 12th Floor- metaphors

Answer 11

jumbo size dentists drill
glittering canyons and gulches

Question 12

Hotel Room, 12th Floor- word choice

Answer 12

uncivilised darkness
wildest of warwhoops

Question 13

Hotel Room, 12th Floor- personification

Answer 13

But midnight is not so easily defeated