The Tempest Quotes
Character who says "O brave new world / That has such people in’t!”
Who is Miranda?
This relative offers Kambili and Jaja a freer, more nurturing environment than their father’s home.
Who is Aunty Ifeoma?
A poetic device that is an intentional overstatement, a comparison using conscious exaggeration.
What is "hyperbole"?
Trevor's mother's name.
What is Patricia?
The Italian city-state where Prospero was reinstated as duke at the end of The Tempest
What is Milan?
Character who says "You taught me language, and my profit on’t / Is, I know how to curse”
Who is Caliban?
Kambili's mother's first name.
What is Beatrice?
This poetic device describes the turn of thought in an argument, coming from the Italian for “turn.” These often occur at the end of poems, suddenly shifting their meaning or direction. Commonly, they will occur in the last two lines.
What is "volta"?
Trevor's maternal grandmother's name.
What is Koko?
The nationality of Trevor Noah's biological father.
What is Swiss?
The character Prospero is speaking to when he says "If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howled away twelve winters"
Who is Ariel?
What is Nsukka?
The particular name for the Jamaican creole dialect
What is Patois?
The tribal identity that Trevor shares with Nelson Mandela
What is Xhosa?
The speaker in the TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story"
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
The character that Caliban speaks to when he says “I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god”
Who is Stephano?
The name of Papa's employee -- the editor of the newspaper -- who was killed for speaking out against the military government.
Who was Ade Coker?
The shorthand used to refer to the generation of people who emigrated from the caribbean to England between the years 1948 to 1971 (so named after the first ship that arrived carrying migrants).
What is the Windrush generation?
The number of official languages of South Africa.
What is 11?
The name of Caliban's mother in The Tempest.
Who is Sycorax?
Character who expresses a utopian vision of a society, saying "“I’ the commonwealth I would by contraries / Execute all things; for no kind of traffic / Would I admit; no name of magistrate… all men idle, all; / And women too, but innocent and pure…”
Who is Gonzalo?
The language used by Papa-Nnukwu and Aunty Ifeoma to maintain cultural traditions that is rarely used by Papa in his household.
What is Igbo?
The author of "Sonny's Lettah", a Jamaican-born immigrant living in the United Kingdom, and a pioneer of "dub poetry"
Who is Linton Kwesi Johnson?
The name of the high school where I worked in South Africa
The author of the World War 1 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Who is Wilfred Owen?