Visiting Hour Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is synecdoche?
A figure of speech in which a part is used to refer to the whole
What colour where the corridors
Green and yellow
What is taken into the lift ?
A corpse
What do the green and yellow corridors represent?
Unpleasant connotations of vomit/pus: clearly uncomfortable here
What does the trundled corpse represent ?
Word choice suggests the lack of care by doctor - feels he doesn’t need to take care if person is dead.
What is enjambment
The continuation of a line of poetry without a break
What technique is used with “I will not feel, I will not feel”
Repetition : maccaig is talking to himself denying feelings that are too painful
Who is spoken about in stanza 4?
The nurses
What does the phrase nurses walk swiftly portray?
Connotations of easy efficiency
What does the nurses slender waist suggest
Suggestion of health, so slight but with strength distracted by MacCaigs appreciative eye for young women.
“Here and up and down and there” what technique is used?
Syntax: unusual word order emphasises busyness of nurses seemingly everywhere at once. Repetition of “and” creates jerkiness in rhythm like going up or down steps.
What combs his nostrils and what technique is used?
The hospital smell combs his nostrils and synecdoche is used.
