Macbeth Quotes
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?
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?
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 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 the high school where I worked in South Africa
What is Walmer High School?
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?
What is Walmer High?
The author of the World War 1 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Who is Wilfred Owen?