Assassination Flashcards

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It was wild.

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  • missed the intended target

- matter of fact

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the

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-

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bullet hit high.

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  • should have hit the physical space

- not hit high as in King

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4
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(the throat-neck)

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  • suggests how deadly
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& from everywhere:

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  • attention from everyone
  • ## narrow minded biggers come to see
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the motel, from under bushes and cars,

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-

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from around corners and across the streets,

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-

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out of the garbage can and from rat holes

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  • unsavoury
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in the earth

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-

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they came running.

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  • separation from us and them
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with

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-

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guns

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-

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drawn

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  • mood of violence
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they came running

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-

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toward the King -

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  • enable to visualise
  • incites that King is the reason for all the violence
  • King as in MLK or the king of the Black Americans
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all of them

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  • distanced
17
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fast and sure -

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  • swift movements of the police

- determined to contain the situation and the King

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as if

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-

19
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the King

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  • they assume King is the culprit

- futility

20
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was going to fire back.

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  • think he is the one shooting not the one being shot
21
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they came running,

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  • haste and speed
22
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fast and sure,

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  • repetition shows the determination to catch him, the ‘culprit’
23
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in the

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-

24
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wrong

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-

25
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direction.

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  • King is not the culprit more so the victim
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layout

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  • chaotic like a person being shot
  • can be seen as the shape of a gun being held
  • visual representation of people arriving from everywhere
27
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form

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  • free verse

- effective in conveying the chaos of the shooting

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structure

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  • enjambment

- frenzy, chaos

29
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rhythm

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  • fast

- convey the speed of the bullet and chaos

30
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mood

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  • chaos