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Question 1

This morning

Answer 1

Morning w.c new start day emphasis that there is positive undertones to open the poem

Question 2

I watched

Answer 2

Watched has connotations of observe and take in emphasis the narrator is not partaking just spectating

Question 3

From here

Answer 3

Introduces isolation of narrator

Question 4

A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect

Answer 4

Simile compares man-made helicopter to a damaged insect. Similarities technology is broken and tiny. Emphasis technology is unflattering

Question 5

Empire State Building

Answer 5

Inclusion if specific building phrase connotes power capitalism and progression. Emphasis that mankind’s greed is so large

Question 6

Empire State Building, that jumbo sized dentists drill

Answer 6

Compares progression to big dentists drill. Similarities are that both are scary unpleasant and large. Emphasis of a mocking undertone silly image and comment abt size being valued in USA

Question 7

But

Answer 7

W.c contrast and change. Emphasis it may no longer be the positive day

Question 8

Midnight has come

Answer 8

Personification- gives midnight human qualities as if it chose to take over

Question 9

Foreigner

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Unknown exotic. Emphasis it’s change and something to fear

Question 10

Uncivilized darkness

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Uncivilized- lacking manners, barbaric emphasis darkness is not a polite state

Darkness- evil scary. Emphasis that’s darkness is something to fear and a clear cut hood and evil has been made in light and dark

Question 11

Shot at

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Metaphor comparing the light from the windows hitting the darkness to a battle. Similarities are light punctures the darkness like a shot punctures a person. Emphasis on fighting

Question 12

A million lit windows

Answer 12

Million connotes vast number yet not enough to drown out darkness

Question 13

But midnight is not so easily defeated

Answer 13

Personification of midnight
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Question 14

Between a radio and a television set

Answer 14

Symbolism
Radio and tv are examples of mankind’s progress
Items used to drown out violence broadcast violence

Question 15

Wildest of warwhoops

Answer 15

Wildest
Connotes uncivilized and brutal. Emphasis on that humanity itself is not civilized

Warwhoops
Connotes battle cry and wails. Emphasis on that Boulanger is everywhere

Question 16

Continually

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Doesn’t stop

Question 17

Ululating

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Primitive, tribal. Emphasis humans are barbaric

Question 18

Glittering canyons and gulches

Answer 18

Metaphor compares canyons to city’s. Similarities the cowboys and Indians fight on the frontier and just as we fight against our own evil. Emphasis on darkness of mankind

Question 19

Racing

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Personification the vehicles themselves are moving quickly to tend to the injured

Question 20

Broken bones

Answer 20

Synecdoche victims are dehumanized as their broken parts are used to represent their whole selves

Question 21

Harsh screaming

Answer 21

Harsh w.c - unpleasant, scary. Emphasis

Question 22

Blood glazed

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Blood- fighting death. Emphasis on violence

Glazed- decorate, pleasant. Emphasis large blood on streets is the finishing touch to city and mankind

Question 23

The frontier

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Metaphor frontier a place of violence is being compared to the places we live. Similarities that frontier sees traditional wars and place we live see the war between us and the evil within us

Question 24

Never

Answer 24

W.c connotes no not at all. Emphasis we can not escape the evil no matter what

Question 25

And no stockades can keep the midnight out.

Answer 25

Metaphor darkness represent evil. Similarities are that we can never escape it