Norman MacCaig Brooklyn Cop Question and answers rated A+ 2024

Norman MacCaig Brooklyn Cop
What are the 4 themes in Brooklyn Cop? - correct answer ✔crime, danger,
isolation and dehumanization


What poem does the theme danger relate with? - correct answer ✔Basking
shark


What poems does the theme isolation relate with? - correct answer ✔visiting
hour, assisi and hotel room 12th floor


What poems does the theme dehumanization relate with? - correct answer
✔Assisi and visiting hour


Quote three points in which MacCaig dehumanizes the cop - correct answer
✔'thick fleshed, steak coloured', 'built like a gorilla' and ' he is a gorilla.'


Quote two times in which MacCaig shows the danger in the cop's life - correct
answer ✔' he might, this time, never get back to?' and 'who would be him'


Quote three times in which Maccaig shows the impact that crime has on the
Brooklyn Cop - correct answer ✔'should the tissue tear', 'he hoped it, he truly
hoped it' and thin tissue over violence'


What is the technique of the quote 'he might, this time, never get back to?' -
correct answer ✔parenthesis


What is the technique of the quote ' should the tissue tear' - correct answer
✔extended metaphor