Friday, April 19, 2013

Week of April 22nd

Narrative Poetry ... Sage Francis "The Best of Times"
                              Student song choices

Odes  "Ode to my Socks" and "Ode to the Answers in the Back of the Math Book"

Current Event Poem: Choose a current event article


POSTERS and VIDEO NOTES
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole


Sunday, April 14, 2013

Poetry Flocabulary

Flocabulary - Allusion


Allusion Examples in Rap

I’m full strength like a Cyclops‘s eye drops,
I got support like high-tops.
- Ugly Duckling, Left Behind.
“The side lines is lined with casualties
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve” -Jay-Z
“Now who’s the boss? Not Tony Danza.” -Malik B of the Roots
“Coming from the deep black like the Loch Ness,
now bring apocalypse like the Heart of Darkness.” - Talib Kweli
“My rep grows like the nose of Pinocchio,
Just because I’ve mastered the art of braggadocio.” -Akrobatik
“This is the point of no return and nobody can stop it
Malcolm Little when he knelt before Elijah Muhammad
The comet that killed the dinosaurs, changing the earth” -Immortal Technique
“Tonedeff’s slays giants,
as if my legal name’s David.” -Tonedeff
“But now we’re facing more poverty,
It’s the most we’ve seen since 1993.
We need to turn this thing around: Michael Vick,
But a recession could be headed for a double dip.” – Flocabulary’s September 16, 2011 Week in Rap



Hip-Hop Personification Examples

“The new moon rose high in the crown of the metropolis, shining! Like ‘who on top of this?’” -Mos Def
“I woke up energized,
My clock speaking,
Closet door open,
My clothes looking at me,
Fresh kicks sleeping” -Median
“Love is blind” -Eve
“Hip-hop is dead.
Hip-hop just died this morning,
And She’s dead.” -Nas




Hip-Hop Alliteration Examples

“Furious, phat, fabulous, fantastic/
flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics”" -Blackalicious
“The crime pays little but the consequence is costly” -Jay Electronica
“I’m a twenty ton terror on top of Tokyo towers with two titanium tentacles” -NoCanDo