C.Hubbell uses exclamation points to show the speaker's enthusiasm, while Dickinson uses dashes to create long pauses in the poem.
Answer:
It slows the pace of the poem down to purposefully confuse the reader. It builds up anticipation about what will happen when the highwayman arrives. It helps to establish the setting of the town and the countryside.
I think X-Ray would have to be the flat character of the movie...
Dripped
A verb is a word that expresses an action: (she jumped into the pool - jumped being the verb) or a state of being: (an example being I am happy. Am is the verb here)
The ice cream was doing an action - it was dripping, so dripped is the verb