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Describe the incident of the assassination attempt that took place during the night, in not more than 100 words (Paragraphs 4 to 15). Failure to keep within the word limit will be penalized. You will be required to:
(i) List your ideas clearly in point form. [6]
(ii) In about 100 words, write your points in the form of a connecting passage. [6]
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Solution
The writer heard the sounds approaching night every day so he was aware of it. But that day, the sounds were different & he came to know that there’s something wrong. He went to wake up Lord Otori. Later, Lord Otori took a sword & knife with him for their safety & both were observing the intruder from the window. Step by step the intruder entered inside & Lord Otori strangle held him whereas the narrator leaped at him. Three of them fall into the garden. But the moon felt first, across the stream, striking his head on a boulder & later they came to know that the assassin had died without regaining consciousness.
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