QUICKDRAW
- Created by: Amy Green
- Created on: 26-12-12 11:04
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- Quickdraw
- The whole poem is an extended metaphor
- Words and phrases which suggest strong emotion
- slung
- Carry something loosly and casually.
- Verb
- Carry something loosly and casually.
- Groan
- To make a long deep sound expressing pain, grief or disapproval
- Verb
- To make a long deep sound expressing pain, grief or disapproval
- calamity
- A disaster
- Noun
- A disaster
- concealed
- This means that something is to kept hidden or to keep a secret
- This could be to keep hidden either their love for each-other or because he has a gun in his boot and he doesn't want the sheriff to find out.
- Verb
- This means that something is to kept hidden or to keep a secret
- fumble
- to touch or handle something awkwardly
- Verb
- slung
- 4 stanzas
- 2,3,4 all have enjambement
- Enjambement is when the poem flows and runs as one long thing
- Enjambement is also used to show a story.
- From stanza 2 followed to stanza 3 there is enjambement
- "Then blast me through the heart
- This could suggest that the heart has been broken physically and emotionally. The heart is broken therefore the line is broken
- Also stanza one followed to stanza 2 there is enjambement
- "In my ear and hear me groan" and then stanza 2 "You've wounded me"
- "Then blast me through the heart
- Also stanza one followed to stanza 2 there is enjambement
- "In my ear and hear me groan" and then stanza 2 "You've wounded me"
- Enjambement is when the poem flows and runs as one long thing
- 2,3,4 all have enjambement
- Phone language
- "Slung from the pockets of my hips
- slung
- Carry something loosly and casually.
- Verb
- Carry something loosly and casually.
- This would be the guns hanging down from his pockets
- slung
- "You speak after the tone"
- This could show that the person on the phone may be feeling guilty so they leave a message, and turn into a monster
- "I show the mobile to the sheriff"
- This could also be a metaphor to show that he is showing the gun to the sheriff
- "Slung from the pockets of my hips
- Western Language
- "high noon, calamity, hard liquor"
- calamity
- A disaster
- Noun
- A disaster
- calamity
- "Last chance salon"
- Saloons situated near areas where alcohol was not easily obtainable
- It was the last chance which people could drink before progressing on to an area where selling and drinking alcohol was illegal
- Saloons situated near areas where alcohol was not easily obtainable
- "Sheriff"
- The legal official to look after a county (acts as the police, they would sort any violence etc..)
- "In my boot"
- Normally western people such as cowboys wear boots this may be to show that they are tough because they are made with leather.
- "In" Could show that there may be anything in the boot but in context this would be a gun
- "In" Could show that there may be anything in the boot but in context this would be a gun
- Normally western people such as cowboys wear boots this may be to show that they are tough because they are made with leather.
- "Down on my knees"
- In many film when a westerner has been shot they go down on their knees before falling to the floor, this is to show that they are being more dramatic with their death.
- "Read the silver bullets of your kiss"
- Metaphor to show that he is close to this girl.
- Silver bullets are weak bullets this shows that he is weak for her
- Metaphor to show that he is close to this girl.
- "high noon, calamity, hard liquor"
- Uses fighting language
- Old fashioned language
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