Moment 8: The Last Night Flashcards
(10 cards)
Poole: “whipped up-stairs into the cabinet”
Quick, agile.
Poole: “but the hair stood upon my head like quills”
Simile - expresses fear.
Poole: “why did he cry out like a rat”
Simile - Hyde’s animalistic and frightening nature.
Poole: “this was more of a dwarf”
Description of Hyde - Lombroso’s reference.
Poole: “do you think I do not know my master after twenty years?”
Irony.
Poole: “the creature”
Hyde’s inhumane nature.
Poole: “the same quick, light way”
Quick pace suggests urgency.
Poole: “when that masked thing like a monkey”
Simile - animalistic appearance + behaviour.
Poole: “it went down my spine like ice”
Simile - ‘frozen with fear’
Poole: “I give you my Bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!”
Religious aspect - he swears on the Bible that it was indeed, Mr. Hyde.
