Poetic/Literary Term Definitions
Nikki Giovanni
Legacies Poem
Disney Movies
Songs
100
Contradicting statements or situations that reveals a difference from reality and what appears to be true...
Irony
100
What movement was she influenced by?
Civil Rights Movement
100
What poetic device is being used? Explain...
'“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old
woman proudly'
Symbolism
100
The apple that puts Snow White into a deep sleep is...what type of irony?
Dramatic Irony
100
This song title represents what type of literary device...
"Rosa Parks" by OutKast
Allusion
200
A few words, emotions, and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context.
Metaphor
200
What movement was she the most popular in?
Black Arts Movement
200
Does the poem have a meter, a regular rhyme scheme, or is it free-verse?
Free-verse
200
The dancing wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast is an example of what?
Personification
200
What literary device is being used...?
"When I'm shootin' my shot, I'm the marksman"- Tyler, the Creator
Simile
300
The breaking of a phrase, clause, or sentence by the end of a line or between two verses...
Enjambment
300
What was the collection's name that the poem, Legacies, was from?
The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
(2003)
300
What poetic device is being used here in the context of the poem?
"but the little girl didn’t want / to learn how because she knew / even if she couldn’t say it that / that would mean when the old one died she would be less / dependent on her spirit"
Irony
300
"It felt like a thousand spotlights were on me."-Tangled
Hyperbole
300
What literary device is being used here?
"You thought that I’d be weak without ya, but I’m stronger
You thought that I’d be broke without ya, but I’m richer
You thought that I’d be sad without ya, I love harder
You thought I wouldn’t grow without ya, now I’m wiser!
You thought that I’d be helpless without ya but I’m smarter
You thought that I’d be stressed without ya, but I’m chillin’
You thought I wouldn’t sell without ya, sold nine million"
Repetition
400
A directed speech towards the audience that is not audible to the characters onstage in drama...
Aside
400
Where did she go to receive her B.A. degree?
Bonus(+50): What year did she receive it?
Fisk University (1967)
400
What structural technique is this?:
'“yes, ma’am” / “i want chu to learn how to make rolls”'
Dialogue
400
What literary device is being used here:
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." -Mulan
Symbolism
400
What TWO literary devices are being used here?(Bonus +50)
"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof…"
Simile & Extended Metaphor (Sadness/Abandonment)
500
An iambic pentameter that does not rhyme...
Blank Verse
500
Bonus(+100) What other place was Nikki Giovanni was raised?
Cincinnati, Ohio
500
Bonus(+100): What poetic/literary device is being used here:
"neither of them ever / said what they meant / and i guess nobody ever does"
Litotes
500
What literary device is being used here...
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." -?
Bonus (+100) Guess the movie:
Anaphora (Finding Nemo)
500
The music video of This Is America by Childish Gambino displays what type of literary device...
Bonus(+50 for each theme) What are some themes being shown in the music video/song?
Symbolism...(Themes: race, violence, culture in America)