Assassination

Question 1

It was wild.

Answer 1

• missed the intended target

- matter of fact

Question 2

the

Answer 2

-

Question 3

bullet hit high.

Answer 3

• should have hit the physical space

- not hit high as in King

Question 4

(the throat-neck)

Answer 4

• suggests how deadly

Question 5

& from everywhere:

Answer 5

• attention from everyone
• ## narrow minded biggers come to see

Question 6

the motel, from under bushes and cars,

Answer 6

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Question 7

from around corners and across the streets,

Answer 7

-

Question 8

out of the garbage can and from rat holes

Answer 8

• unsavoury

Question 9

in the earth

Answer 9

-

Question 10

they came running.

Answer 10

• separation from us and them

Question 11

with

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Question 12

guns

Answer 12

-

Question 13

drawn

Answer 13

• mood of violence

Question 14

they came running

Answer 14

-

Question 15

toward the King -

Answer 15

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

Question 16

all of them

Answer 16

• distanced

Question 17

fast and sure -

Answer 17

• swift movements of the police

- determined to contain the situation and the King

Question 18

as if

Answer 18

-

Question 19

the King

Answer 19

• they assume King is the culprit

- futility

Question 20

was going to fire back.

Answer 20

• think he is the one shooting not the one being shot

Question 21

they came running,

Answer 21

• haste and speed

Question 22

fast and sure,

Answer 22

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

Question 23

in the

Answer 23

-

Question 24

wrong

Answer 24

-

Question 25

direction.

Answer 25

- King is not the culprit more so the victim

Question 26

layout

Answer 26

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

Question 27

form

Answer 27

- free verse | - effective in conveying the chaos of the shooting

Question 28

structure

Answer 28

- enjambment | - frenzy, chaos

Question 29

rhythm

Answer 29

- fast | - convey the speed of the bullet and chaos

Question 30

mood

Answer 30

- chaos