Hip Hop History
These West Africans chanters of the 1200s were considered "rappers before rapping started"
Griots
“The tack stuck, and the stick struck, yet all the while the block rocked”
Consonance
Poetry
Literary work that expresses feelings or emotions through style and rhythm
Simile
Good job!
The most current form of rap named "Mumble Rap" got its name in what year?
2016
“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
Refrain
“To Repeat” It is a poetic device that undergoes
repetition, at regular intervals, in different stanzas.
Hyperbole
You did it!
Who died first Biggie or Tupac? What Years?
Tupac in 1996 and then Biggie in 1997
“To climb Mount Everest in winter was a Herculean task”
Allusion
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.
Metaphor
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
“While the stars that oversprinkle, All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time”
Euphony
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.
Personification
SHEEEEEEEEEESH
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
“Ever since we used to kiss, I said I’m going to miss this bliss.”
Assonance
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
Cacophony
YOU REALLY DID THAT