Below are two poems and two sets of questions.
Answer questions 1-2 for the poem "Crazy".
Answer questions 5-8 for the rap song "Colors" by Ice T.
Crazy
Words and Music by Ed Robertson & Tim Wilson
I climb the walls of my mind just like I'm climbing
on the jungle gym.
I am more than content with the
state of mind I am in.
'cause I am crazy just like you. 5
I am crazy just like you.
I don't think I need a rubber room, but that might be nice.
I'm not a manic depressive paranoid or schizophrenic
so I don't need your advice.
I am crazy just like you. 10
I am crazy just like you.
The lights are on but nobody's home (line 12)
my elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck I've lost my marbles.
The lights are on but nobody's home 15
My elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck I've lost my marbles.
I'm a few bricks short of a load,
but a full load always hurt my back.
I flew over the cuckoo's nest and 20
I'm never ever coming back because
I am crazy just like you.
I am crazy just like you.
I am crazy.
Figures of Speech
1. There is a specific type of language in lines 1-2 and in the refrain that ends each of the other stanzas (except the stanza in lines 12-17) What is the correct term for this kind of comparison? 5
2. In lines 12 - 20 there are a series of descriptions. These involve comparisons with the situations described and the speaker's state of mind. What is the correct term for each of these? 5
Colors (excerpt)
byIce-T
It's like a war, ya know what I'm sayin'
People don't even understand
They don't even know what they dealing with
You wanna get rid of the gangs
it's gonna take a lotta work 5
But people don't understand the size of this
This is no joke man, this is real
You don't know me, fool
You disown me, cool
I don't need your assistance, social persistance 10
Any problem I got I just put my fist in
My life is violent but violent is life 12
Peace is a dream, reality is a knife 13
My colors, my honour, my colors, my all
With my colors upon me one soldier stands tall 15
Tell me what have you left me, what have I got
Last night in cold blood my young brother got shot
My home got jacked
My mother's on crack
My sister can't work cause her arms show trax 20
Madness, insanity, live in profanity,
Then some punk claimin' they understandin' me
Give me a break, what world do you live in
Death is my sect, guess my religion.
Figures of Speech
3. What is the rapper who wrote this song doing NOW? (Where can he be seen weekly?) 2
4. Identify at least one simile in this rap song from the movie "Colors" Give the line number and identify the word (or words) that makes it a simile. 5
5. Line 13 has two identical uses of figurative language. What is the name of this figure of speech? 3
6. In line 18, 19, & 20, there is a figure of speech that makes use of the final sounds in some words. What are the words and what is the term for the figure of speech that best describes this use of final sounds. 3
7. Find the definition of the two words in the last line and type the most correct definitions below. 2
8. The terms sect and religion are related in a way. Write this last line over using two other words that have the same or a similar type of relationship; Example "Guns are my vocabulary, guess my lyrics." or, "Gunfire is my birdsong, guess my plumage." 5
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