Boom
Written by...
Who is Jean Tay?
"moves with the bouncy rhythms and exuberance that characterize the music. The sentences are casual and short-winded, the phrases are short, tumbling after one another in rapid succession"
What is jazz poetry?
What is the Paper 1 placemat?
Where does the majority of the story take place?
Thebes
When multiple units of a property are sold collectively to a single buyer, typically for redevelopment
What is en bloc?
Name that poem "Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?"
What is Let America be America again
This criterion is focused on understanding meaning, both literal and abstract.
What is Criterion A?
What is Creon's attitude at the end of the play?
What is regretful?
A dramatic device used in Boom. Boom, Mother, Jeremiah and The Corpse all have one
What is a monologue?
Name that poem "The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm, honey"
What is Lennix Avenue: Midnight
The three things that need to be addressed together in your introduction
What is context, audience and purpose?
Creon uses a metaphor to describe his country. What is it? What role does Creon see himself playing in the metaphor?
The country is a boat and he is the captain of the ship.
What is running around in your mother's red underwear, pretending to be Superman?
the repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines
What is anaphora?
In the Campbell's Soup advertisement, the hostess was... (think of the heading)
What is unafraid?
In Greek tragedy, the Hamartia is ...
The tragic flaw or mistake that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.
Finish the sentence:
"Corpses are not the same as ghosts. Ghosts haunt. ......... ......."
What is "corpses rot"
It began at around 1918 and continued to 1937
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Four rhetorical devices used to persuade are...
Anything from:
allusion
antithesis/ juxtaposition/ contrast
emotive language/ hyperbole/ exaggeration
litotes
metaphor/ simile
parallelism
triadic structure
facts/ statistics
Many forms of repetition (anaphora, anadiplosis, epistrophe etc.)
Synthetic personalisation/what kind of relationship the speaker generates with the audience
Anecdotes
Rhetorical questions/hypophora/epiplexis
Who says it? "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great bows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise"
The Chorus