In The Depths Of Solitude Vocabulary
What does the word compromise mean?
an agreement where each side gives up something to reach a solution
What was Tupac Shakur's profession?
rapper/poet
A Japanese syllabic verse form of three lines; the first and third lines have five syllables, the second line has seven syllables; spell it backwards to name a city you likely know
What is haiku?
The revolutionary Black American political party formed in Oakland in 1966; Tupac Shakur's parents were members.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Writing characterized by line form, rhyme, alliteration, and/or rich imagery
What is poetry?
What does the word depths mean?
distance from the top or surface to the bottom of something
What was the name of Shakur's poem we read in class?
In The Depths Of Solitude
Global popular music form with roots in Black American song and poetry
What is hip hop?
White supremacist terrorism that takes the form of mob murders and mutilations of primarily Black Americans
What is lynching?
Conventional form of writing characterized by standard sentence-structure
What is prose?
alone or far-off from society
When was the poem written?
between 1989 and 1991
The birthplace of poet Claude McKay and the parents of Biggie Smalls
What is Jamaica?
A central idea or lesson
What is a theme?
What does the word pondering mean?
to think or consider especially quietly, soberly, and deeply
Say something you can relate to in the poem.
Good Job!
The mass movement of about six million Black Americans from the rural south to the urban north that occurred throughout the 20th century
What was the Great Migration?
A comparison of two unlike things that uses the word like, or as
What is a simile?
What does the word yearning mean?
a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily
The Black intellectual and cultural revival that occured in New York in the 1920's and 1930's
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A fourteen-line rhyming poetic form
What is a sonnet?