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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.

The talented Bryan Cranston

Spielberg's latest epic, Saving Private Ryan, has shocked audiences around the world with his brutally realistic, down-to-earth World War II invasion of Omaha beach. The film opens with the landing boats full of petrified, white-faced, conscripted soldiers, who struggle to cope with the pure terror imposed upon them from the enormity of the task they face.