Craft
Name the literary device:
"Black and White"
"enslaved then emancipated"
What is juxtaposition?
"can grow up" being used multiple times, but not throughout or at the beginning of multiple stanzas, meaning it is this broader term:
what is repetition
free. Can grow up
learning and voting and walking and riding
wherever we want.
The period at the end of the line is an example of:
What is endstopping?
The name of our protagonist
Jackie
This poet wrote "Dreams" and is known as a leading voice and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
"Life is a broken-winged bird"
What is metaphor?
"I am born" at the beginning of consecutive stanzas
What is anaphora?
free. Can grow up
learning and voting and walking and riding
wherever we want.
The first two lines are an example of:
what is enjambment?
What is second?
This figure led a march on Washington, planned in Birmingham Alabama, where he famously wrote letters from jail that condemned complacency and complicity
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
The south exploding is an example of this kind of exaggeration
what is alliteration?
the sound of the letter and the promise
that one day this will be connected to a full name,
my own
that I will be able to write
by myself.
This intentional form intended to impact pacing and emphasis is an example of:
Note: look BETWEEN the lines
What is white space?
What is the Civil War?
This person was president when Jackie was born and is mentioned in the second poem in Part I
Who is JFK?
the stories of South Carolina already run
like rivers
the italicized comparison of stories to rivers using like is:
what is a simile?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
what is rhyme scheme?
dawn till dusk
unpaid
drank cool water from scooped out gourds
This decision to click return in the middle of a thought is an example of contrasting ________
What is line length
The letter J
This famous woman refused to give up her bus seat, starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Double points if you can name the young girl who did it first!
Who is Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin?
the stories of South Carolina already run
like rivers
the description of stories running (which humans do) is called:
what is personification?
Frozen with snow
the repeating vowel sound here is:
what is assonance?
When Jackie shifts from
keep fighting
and marching
and getting killed
so that today—
February 12, 1963
and every day from this moment on,
brown children, like me, can grow up
free. Can grow up
learning and voting and walking and riding
wherever we want.
the tone shift that occurs with her birth date is:
What is a volta?
what is Ohio and South Carolina?
Finish the following lyric:
"Deep in my heart, I do believe"
"that we shall overcome someday"