Wait, What's That?
Words that represent sounds
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
“Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.”
Simile
“Ever since we used to kiss, I said I’m going to miss this bliss.”
Assonance
What came first Toasting or Griots?
What years do they date back to?
Griots - 1200s
Toasting - 1960s
Repeating Consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words
Alliteration
Euphony VS Cacophony
Euphony - Sounds that make you feel good
Cacophony - Sounds that make you feel bad
“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
“While the stars that oversprinkle, All the sky seems to twinkle
With a crystalline delight; and happiness for all time”
Euphony
What two events in the 1970s led to the Birth of Rap?
1973 - The first rap bars were spit over a record beat by DJ Kool Herc
1979 - The first Hip Hop song "Rappers Delight" played on the radio
Comparing two different things using "Like" or "As"
Simile
Metaphor
Describing something in a non-literal way to give more meaning
“In a house the size of a postage stamp lived a man as big as a barge.
His mouth could drink the entire river. You could say it was rather large”
Hyperbole
“There's a cat named Joe and you wouldn't want to know
But he thinks he'd like to be a Hippopotamus
And it sounds very strange, when he says he wants to change
And in that way he's just like a lot of us”
Personification
What two groups created a Rock/Rap collaboration in 1986?
What was the song?
Run DMC and Aerosmith created "Walk This Way"
Repeating LINES in different stanzas
Refrain
Consonance VS Assonance
Consonance - Repeating CONSONANT sounds at middle/ends of words
Assonance - Repeating VOWEL sounds close to each other
“To climb Mount Everest in winter was a task for one like Hercules”
Allusion
"Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep"
"I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamonds gleam on snow"
Metaphor
What is the MOST RECENT era of rap called?
What year was it born?
Mumble Rap, born in 2016
Hyperbole
Allusion
Making a reference to a past work or event that many people know about
“The tack stuck, and the stick struck, yet all the while the block rocked”
Consonance
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the jaws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun, the frumious Bandersnatch!”
Cacophony
Correctly order these important moments in the Golden Era of Hip Hop:
-Biggie is killed in LA
-Jay Z is named CEO of Def Jam Records
-Tupac is killed in Las Vegas
-The First Episodes of Fresh Prince airs on TV
1) Fresh Prince
2) Tupac Dies
3) Biggie Dies
4) Jay Z Named CEO