Assassination Flashcards
1
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It was wild.
A
- missed the intended target
- matter of fact
2
Q
the
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-
3
Q
bullet hit high.
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- should have hit the physical space
- not hit high as in King
4
Q
(the throat-neck)
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- suggests how deadly
5
Q
& from everywhere:
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- attention from everyone
- ## narrow minded biggers come to see
6
Q
the motel, from under bushes and cars,
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-
7
Q
from around corners and across the streets,
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-
8
Q
out of the garbage can and from rat holes
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- unsavoury
9
Q
in the earth
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-
10
Q
they came running.
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- separation from us and them
11
Q
with
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12
Q
guns
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-
13
Q
drawn
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- mood of violence
14
Q
they came running
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-
15
Q
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
16
Q
all of them
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- distanced
17
Q
fast and sure -
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- swift movements of the police
- determined to contain the situation and the King
18
Q
as if
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-
19
Q
the King
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- they assume King is the culprit
- futility
20
Q
was going to fire back.
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- think he is the one shooting not the one being shot
21
Q
they came running,
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- haste and speed
22
Q
fast and sure,
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- repetition shows the determination to catch him, the ‘culprit’
23
Q
in the
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24
Q
wrong
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-
25
Q
direction.
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- King is not the culprit more so the victim
26
Q
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
Q
form
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- free verse
- effective in conveying the chaos of the shooting
28
Q
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
