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Tupac’s Poetry ToolboxBackgound Information &Terms Necessary toUnderstanding The RoseThat Grew From ConcreteUse these definitions, takenfrom the Meyer LiteratureSite, for your “LiteraryTerms” Handout Packet (alsoknown as “McKemie Gold”)

Backgound InformationTupac Amaur Shakur June 19, 1971 - September 13, 1996 Birth Name: Lesane Parish Crooks Nick Names: 2Pac, Makaveli, Pac

Tupac Amaru ShakurBiographyTupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971, and was named after an Inca Chief. Asa child, his nickname was the ―Black Prince.‖ He grew up in the Bronx, New York, wherehis mother, Afeni Shakur, was a member of the Black Panther Party. The Black PantherParty was an organization dedicated to education and civil rights. Tupac Shakur had asister Sekyiwa, who was two years younger than he. He did not have contact with hisfather, and his sister’s father, Mutulu, was jailed for sixty years for armed robbery. Thefamily fell on hard times and moved frequently. This created some insecurity in Tupac, ashe never had an opportunity to make lasting friends. He found solace in writing poetryand love songs. He kept a diary, in which he noted that he would one day be famous.At the age of fifteen, Shakur attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studiedacting and, surprisingly, ballet. It was there that he began to feel as if he fit in. He lovedschool and planned to become a musical artist.In the late 1980s, he formed a group called Digital Underground. They released severalrecords that met with success. In 1992, he broke away from Digital Underground andbegan a solo career. His solo debut, 2Pacalypse Now, propelled him to stardom. He alsobegan acting in films. Between rapping and acting, Tupac began a five year period ofrapid success in the music business. After being shot on September 13, 1996, TupacShakur died. He was only twenty-five. He had often said he would die before he wasthirty. As of 2005, no one has been charged with the crime. There are numerous theoriesabout the murder, but nothing has been proven.

Where He Grew Up Grew up primarily in Harlem Moved to Baltimore in 1984 And moved again in 1988 to Oakland, CaliforniaHarlem, Baltimore, Oakland

Literary Terms

Allegory A narration or description usually restricted to asingle meaning because its events, actions,characters, settings, and objects represent specificabstractions or ideas. Although the elements in anallegory may be interesting in themselves, theemphasis tends to be on what they ultimately mean.Characters may be given names such as Hope, Pride,Youth, and Charity; they have few if any personalqualities beyond their abstract meanings. Thesepersonifications are not symbols because, forinstance, the meaning of a character named Charityis precisely that virtue.

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that usuallyrhyme and have the same meter. A heroiccouplet is a couplet written in rhymed iambicpentameter.

If There Be Pain

Dialect A type of informational diction. Dialects arespoken by definable groups of people from aparticular geographic region, economic group, orsocial class. Writers use dialect to contrast andexpress differences in educational, class, social,and regional backgrounds of their characters.

Elegy A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written tocommemorate someone who is dead, oftenending in a consolation. Tennyson’s InMemoriam, written on the death of ArthurHallam, is an elegy. Elegy may also refer to aserious meditative poem produced to express thespeaker’s melancholy thoughts.

Starry Night

Starry Night: Vincent Van Gogh

End rhyme most common form of rhyme in poetry; therhyme comes at the end of the lines.It runs through the reedsAnd away it proceeds,Through meadow and glade,In sun and in shade.

Rhyme scheme describes the pattern of end rhymes. Rhymeschemes are mapped out by noting patterns ofrhyme with small letters: the first rhyme soundis designated a, the second becomes b, the thirdc, and so on. Thus, the rhyme scheme of thestanza above is aabb.

Internal rhyme places at least one of the rhymed words within the line,as in "Dividing and gliding and sliding" or "In mist orcloud, on mast or shroud." Masculine rhyme describesthe rhyming of single-syllable words, such as grade orshade. Masculine rhyme also occurs where rhymingwords of more than one syllable, when the same soundoccurs in a final stressed syllable, as in defend andcontend, betray and away. Feminine rhyme consists of arhymed stressed syllable followed by one or moreidentical unstressed syllables, as in butter, clutter;gratitude, attitude; quivering, shivering. All the examplesso far have illustrated exact rhymes, because they sharethe same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharingsounds that follow the vowel.

Near rhyme (also called off rhyme, slant rhyme, andapproximate rhyme), the sounds are almostbut not exactly alike. A common form of nearrhyme is consonance, which consists of identicalconsonant sounds preceded by different vowelsounds: home, same; worth, breath.

Half Rhyme - a near-rhyme; one that isapproximate, not exact. Also called slantrhyme.Examples: keep/neat, friend/wind.

Foot The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.A foot usually consists of one stressed and one or twounstressed syllables. An iambic foot, which consists ofone unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable("away"), is the most common metrical foot in Englishpoetry. A trochaic foot consists of one stressed syllablefollowed by an unstressed syllable ("lovely"). Ananapestic foot is two unstressed syllables followed by onestressed one ("understand"). A dactylic foot is onestressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones("desperate"). A spondee is a foot consisting of twostressed syllables ("dead set"), but is not a sustainedmetrical foot and is used mainly for variety or emphasis.

Examples: “To be/ or not/ tobe/‖ consists of three feet of two syllableseach. ―Amidst/ the mists/ he spied/ thegirl/‖ is made up of four feet, each with twosyllables. ―Comprehend/ the meaning/ ofrhythm‖ uses three feet of three syllableseach.

Free verse Also called open form poetry, free verse refers topoems characterized by their nonconformity toestablished patterns of meter, rhyme, andstanza. Free verse uses elements such as speechpatterns, grammar, emphasis, and breath pausesto decide line breaks, and usually does notrhyme.

- poetry that has no formal rhyme or meterand depends on the rhythms ofspeech. Example: Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grass.

Hyperbole A boldly exaggerated statement that addsemphasis without in-tending to be literally true,as in the statement "He ate everything in thehouse." Hyperbole (also called overstatement)may be used for serious, comic, or ironic effect.See also figures of speech.

Line A sequence of words printed as a separate entity on thepage. In poetry, lines are usually measured by thenumber of feet they contain. The names for various linelengths are as follows: monometer: one footdimeter: two feettrimeter: three feet tetrameter: four feet pentameter: five feethexameter: six feetet octameter: eight feet The number of feet in a line, coupled with the name ofthe foot, describes the metrical qualities of that line.

Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes acomparison between two unlike things, withoutusing the word like or as. Metaphors assert theidentity of dissimilar things, as when Macbethasserts that life is a "brief candle." Metaphorscan be subtle and powerful, and can transformpeople, places, objects, and ideas into whateverthe writer imagines them to be.

Implied metaphor more subtle comparison; the terms being compared arenot so specifically explained. For example, to describe astubborn man unwilling to leave, one could say that hewas "a mule standing his ground." This is a fairly explicitmetaphor; the man is being compared to a mule. But tosay that the man "brayed his refusal to leave" is to createan implied metaphor, because the subject (the man) isnever overtly identified as a mule. Braying is associatedwith the mule, a notoriously stubborn creature, and sothe comparison between the stubborn man and the muleis sustained. Implied metaphors can slip by inattentivereaders who are not sensitive to such carefully chosen,highly concentrated language.

Extended metaphor a sustained comparison in which part or all of apoem consists of a series of related metaphors.Robert Francis’s poem "Catch" relies on anextended metaphor that compares poetry toplaying catch.

Controlling metaphor runs through an entire work and determines theform or nature of that work. The controllingmetaphor in Anne Bradstreet’s poem "TheAuthor to Her Book" likens her book to a child.

Synecdoche is a kind of metaphor in which a part ofsomething is used to signify the whole, as when agossip is called a "wagging tongue," or when tenships are called "ten sails." Sometimes,synecdoche refers to the whole being used tosignify the part, as in the phrase "Boston wonthe baseball game." Clearly, the entire city ofBoston did not participate in the game; thewhole of Boston is being used to signify theindividuals who played and won the game.

Metonymy is a type of metaphor in which something closelyassociated with a subject is substituted for it. Inthis way, we speak of the "silver screen" to meanmotion pictures, "the crown" to stand for theking, "the White House" to stand for theactivities of the president.

Meter When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in apoem, it is called meter. Metrical patterns aredetermined by the type and number of feet in a lineof verse; combining the name of a line length withthe name of a foot concisely describes the meter ofthe line. Rising meter refers to metrical feet whichmove from unstressed to stressed sounds, such asthe iambic foot and the anapestic foot. Falling meterrefers to metrical feet which move from stressed tounstressed sounds, such as the trochaic foot and thedactylic foot.

Personification A form of metaphor in which humancharacteristics are attributed to nonhumanthings. Personification offers the writer a way togive the world life and motion by assigningfamiliar human behaviors and emotions toanimals, inanimate objects, and abstract ideas.For example, in Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn,"the speaker refers to the urn as an "unravishedbride of quietness."

Point of View Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told. What we know and how wefeel about the events in a work are shaped by the author’s choice of point ofview. The teller of the story, the narrator, inevitably affects ourunderstanding of the characters’ actions by filtering what is told through hisor her own perspective. The various points of view that writers draw uponcan be grouped into two broad categories: (1) the third-person narrator useshe, she, or they to tell the story and does not participate in the action; and(2) the first-person narrator uses I and is a major or minor participant inthe action. In addition, a second-person narrator, you, is also possible, butis rarely used because of the awkwardness of thrusting the reader into thestory, as in "You are minding your own business on a park bench when adrunk steps out and demands your lunch bag." An objective point of viewemploys a third-person narrator who does not see into the mind of anycharacter. From this detached and impersonal perspective, the narratorreports action and dialogue without telling us directly what the charactersthink and feel. Since no analysis or interpretation is provided by thenarrator, this point of view places a premium on dialogue, actions, anddetails to reveal character to the reader.

Quatrain A four-line stanza. Quatrains are the mostcommon stanzaic form in the English language;they can have various meters and rhymeschemes.

In the Depths of Solitudei exist in the depths of solitudepondering my true goaltrying 2 find peace of mindand still preserve my soulconstantly yearning 2 be acceptedand from all receive respectnever comprising but sometimes riskyand that is my only regreta young heart with an old soulhow can there be peacehow can i be in the depths of solitudewhen there r 2 inside of methis duo within me causesthe perfect oppurtunity2 learn and live twice as fastas those who accept simplicity

Rhyme The repetition of identical or similar concludingsyllables in different words, most often at the endsof lines. Rhyme is predominantly a function ofsound rather than spelling; thus, words that endwith the same vowel sounds rhyme, for instance,day, prey, bouquet, weigh, and words with the sameconsonant ending rhyme, for instance vain, feign,rein, lane. Words do not have to be spelled the sameway or look alike to rhyme. In fact, words may lookalike but not rhyme at all. This is called eye rhyme,as with bough and cough, or brow and blow.

Rhythm A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressedand unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending onhow sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poemmay be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. Poets userhythm to create pleasurable sound patterns andto reinforce meanings. Rhythm in prose arisesfrom pattern repetitions of sounds and pausesthat create looser rhythmic effects.

Simile A common figure of speech that makes an explicitcomparison between two things by using words suchas like, as, than, appears, and seems: "A sip of Mrs.Cook’s coffee is like a punch in the stomach." Theeffectiveness of this simile is created by thedifferences between the two things compared. Therewould be no simile if the comparison were statedthis way: "Mrs. Cook’s coffee is as strong as thecafeteria’s coffee." This is a literal translationbecause Mrs. Cook’s coffee is compared withsomething like it—another kind of coffee.

Stanza In poetry, stanza refers to a grouping of lines, setoff by a space, that usually has a set pattern ofmeter and rhyme.

It was many and many a year agoIn a kingdom by the seaThat a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.–Edgar Allen Poe

Tercet A three-line stanza.Example:―All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told.Many a man his life hath sold ‖– The Merchant of Venice

Tone The author’s implicit attitude toward the readeror the people, places, and events in a work asrevealed by the elements of the author’s style.Tone may be characterized as serious or ironic,sad or happy, private or public, angry oraffectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any otherattitudes and feelings that human beingsexperience.

Examples: The gloom and representation ofdecay is the main tone of Poe’s The Fall ofthe House of Usher; the tone of Catch-22 is oneof sarcasm and absurdity. Tupac’s poems oftenhave a tone of loneliness and sadness.

Verse A generic term used to describe poetic linescomposed in a measured rhythmical pattern,that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed.

In the Even of My Demise

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Synecdoche is a kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, as when a gossip is called a "wagging tongue," or when ten ships are called "ten sails." Sometimes, synecdoche refers to the whole being used to signify the part, as in the phrase "B

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