CHARACTERS
The main character
Delphine
Who is the main poet in the story
Cecile or Nzilla
What does perspective mean?
Point of view
What is the setting of the story.
Oakland
A scene that interrupts the chronological sequence by recalling a previous event
Flashback
Delphine's younger sisters
Vonetta and Fern
Who wrote "still I rise"
maya angelou
What does Spectacle mean?
a visually striking performance or display.
san francisco
Figure of speech in which two things are compared without using the words “like” or “as”
Metaphor
Big Ma
What is a Stanza
A group of lines in a poem.
Which word means a feeling of sadness for the suffering of others?
Pitty
What did the girls eat for dinner on the first night.
Mean lady mings lo mein.
A revolutionary political organization founded to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality
Black Panther Party
The teacher at the black panther people's center.
Sister Mukumbu
True or False
The speaker of the poem is also the author
False
What does it mean to be envious
Jealous
Who is Bobby Hutton
A black panther that was shot by the police.
multiple words close together that begin with the same consonant sound
Alliteration
Who is NZILLA
Cecile
I Birthed a Black Nation was performed by who?
The people's rally
to comfort and support at a time of grief or disappointment
Console
Who is the "good puppy" in story.
Kelvin
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without end punctuation
Enjambment