Visual language
One of the ways in which the poets bring out what the people are like through the language of the two poems is by using similes. In Two Scavengers the poet uses the simile "like some gargoyle Quasimodo" to symbolize that the bin man is unsightly. The simile "the peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of God a hundred times" in Night of the Scorpion suggests that the peasants are rushing to the attraction and are also religious, but annoying like buzzing flies.