Depending on what grade you are, maybe. If you are in sixth grade or lower, yes. In seventh and higher, no. A question as a hook is taught in elementary school but should not be used in higher grade essays.
<span>Or is not an example of transition word or phrase.</span>
Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
they were both shot and killed. They also fought for equal rights. A little bit because MLK,Jr spoke for black civil rights, and Abraham Lincoln spoke for the freedom of the slaves