Hip Hop History
Find the Device!
Definitions
Build-Your-Own
100

These West Africans chanters of the 1200s were considered "rappers before rapping started"

Griots

100

“The tack stuck, and the stick struck, yet all the while the block rocked”

Consonance

100

Poetry

Literary work that expresses feelings or emotions through style and rhythm

100

Simile

Good job!

200

The most current form of rap named "Mumble Rap" got its name in what year?

2016

200

“Slam! Slam! Go the car doors.  Jangle! Jangle! Go the house keys.

Jiggle! Jiggle! Go the keys in the door. Squeak! Goes the front door!”

Onomatopoeia

200

Refrain

“To Repeat” It is a poetic device that undergoes

repetition, at regular intervals, in different stanzas.

200

Hyperbole

You did it!

300

Who died first Biggie or Tupac? What Years?

Tupac in 1996 and then Biggie in 1997

300

“To climb Mount Everest in winter was a Herculean task”

Allusion

300

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

300

Metaphor

Yasssss bihhhhhh
400

What and When were the two major events led to the "Birth of Rap"? 

1973- First rap bars spit over beats played by DJ Kool Herc

1978- First rap song "Rapper's Delight" was played on the radio

400

“While the stars that oversprinkle, All the heavens seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time”

Euphony

400

Assonance

The repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernable.

400

Personification

SHEEEEEEEEEESH

500

Place these events in the correct order:

-Biggie is killed in a drive-by shooting

-"Walk this Way" is released by Run DMC and Aerosmith

-Jay Z is named CEO of Def Jam Records

-The Fresh Prince airs on TV

-Tupac is killed in a drive-by shooting

1) "Walk this Way"

2) Fresh Prince

3) Tupac is Killed

4) Biggie is Killed

5) Jay-Z is named CEO

500

“Ever since we used to kiss, I said I’m going to miss this bliss.”

Assonance

500

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

500

Cacophony

YOU REALLY DID THAT

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