Brooklyn Cop Flashcards
Built like a gorilla
So okie compares string physical appearance to a gorilla. Similarities are large brute and strong. Emphasis that cop is brutal
Steak coloured
Meaty red. Emphasizing that he’s outside
Two hieroglyphsis his face that mean trouble
Metaphor eyes to hieroglyphics. Hard to read and difficult to understand. Emphasis he’s cut off from others
The thin tissue over violence
Metaphor comparing divide between civilization and savagery to paper. Similarities both are thin. Emphasis we are close to violence at all times
See you babe
Cliche as tender and loving connection. Emphasis he has loved ones and is forced to close himself off
He hoped it, he truly j
Repetition emphasis his uncertainty that he will see his wife
He is gorilla
Metaphor compares him to girl kiss again. Similarities brutal scary big. Emphasis he’s now not just like the gorilla he IS the gorilla
Should the tissue tear
Alliteration continuation of the extended metaphor. Comparing society to paper. Emphasis it’s easy to year and questioning what would happen
Plunge
Suggests sudden violence. Emphasis the tissue could tear at any moment
Violence
Clubbing
Gunshots
W.c aggression, death. Emphasis that we live in a brutal society
Gorilla
Use of gorilla again emphasis he’s big brutal ect.
A nightstick
Suggest weapon safety. Emphasis his need for violence even though a gun would be safer
Home
Connotes safety and reassurance. Emphasis that he also can be scared and intimidated
,This time,
suggests vulnerable and at risk. Emphasis that’s there’s a pessimistic outcome
Parenthesis slows final line and increases sympathy
And who would be who would have to be his victims
Inversion if sentence structure. Reader as to slow down and take in sentence fully understand meaning
