Spoken Word Terms
The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas to create a poem
What is Imagery
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
What is I, Too Sing America?
I’d like some paper people.
They’d be purple paper people.
Maybe pop-up purple paper people.
Proper pop-up purple paper people.
What is Alliteration?
Author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
What if Kanye made a song about Kanye
Called "I Miss The Old Kanye"? Man, that'd be so Kanye
That's all it was Kanye, we still love Kanye
And I love you like Kanye loves Kanye
The tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
What is Realism?
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
What is Still I Rise?
Nate been writing
80 poems a day,
since age one eight
he made 8 great
anthologies and locked ‘em all away”
What is Hyperbole?
Author of Rifle
Who is Rudy Francisco?
See, once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
Adaptation inevitable, gun violence, crack spot
Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals
What is Realism?
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
What is a Stanza?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
What is Harlem?
61 was clever, see, not prone to jealousy,
She looked him in the eyes and told him quite tenderly,
"You’re 59, I’m 61, together we combine to become twice what 60 could ever be."
And at this point 59 had tears in his eyes,
Was so glad to have this one-of-a-kind girl in his life.
What is Personification?
An Innovator of Jazz Poetry
Who is Langston Hughes?
"SWISH! Nothing But Net."
What is Onomatopoeia?
The things that are held or included in something. The material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc., as distinct from its form or style.
I'm not a miracle, I'm a heaven-sent instrument
My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental
That's why I'm instrumental
Vibrations is what I'm into
Yeah, I need my loot by rent day
But that is not what gives me the heart of Kunte Kinte
What is Never Let you Down?
It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine
Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
What is Allusion?
Author of the poem Cody
Who is Nova?
"I never Hated, I just Waited and look what that brought me. Home Alone with my money like Macaulay Culkin."
What is an Allusion?
An agent in a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
What is Character?
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands
What is I Hear America Hearing?
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
What is a Metaphor?
Author of the Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker?
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
What is Enjambment?