Rap or Poetry? When I grow up analysis

Rap or Poetry?

playing with words

RL.7.2 Theme Analysis

Learning Target: I will identify the theme of a song and analyze how the theme is developed.

Word choice in songs

Authors use figurative language to fit a lot of information into a small space.

Figurative language conveys emotion, images, sounds, tastes, touch, smells, ideas, and so much more by playing with the words people use every day.

Poll

Which art form is harder to master?

• Rap

• Poetry

Lyrical Poetry

Songs can be considered lyrical poetry

Rap songs are the closest lyrical genre to poetry.

The difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics are written with the intention of being set to music.

Multiple Choice

The trilling wire in the blood, sings below inveterate scars, appeasing long forgotten wars

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

Tears on the mausoleum floor, blood stains the Colosseum doors

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek, your heartbeat sound like sasquatch feet, thundering, shaking the concrete

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

Though things change, the future's still inside of me, we must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

I had not thought death had undone so many

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

His ineffable effable, effanineffable, deep and inscrutable singular name

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels, and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells

• Rap

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

I start to think, and then I sink into the paper like I was ink, when I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines

• Rap

• Poetry

We will listen to the song "When I Grow Up" By NF and then analyze the lyrics using THINK.

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Finding

poetry in lyrics

Multiple Choice

Pick the text evidence that best supports the theme (big idea) of "Coming of Age" (growing up).

• "I been crunchin' numbers, you ain't gotta be a mathematician"

• "...when I grow up, you know what I wanna be?/Take a seat, let me tell you my ridiculous dreams"

• "But what I'm saying is they ever push me, I'm gonna swing, yeah"

• "I don't like the dollar menu, I would rather make a meal"

Reorder

Drag and drop the lyrics that support the theme into order from beginning to end.

• Verse 1, Line 2 "Take a seat, let me tell you my ridiculous dreams

  I wanna rap"

• Verse 4 Line 1"I'ma make 'em notice me, rhymin' like it's poetry"

• Last Chorus "When I grow up, I just want to pay my bills (woo)

  Rappin' about the way I feel"

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

Multiple Choice

Pick the text evidence that best supports the determined tone.

• "I am not a quitter, you ain't really think that, did you?/Maybe someday I could even be up on the radio"

• "Rappin' about the way I feel, oh yeah"

• "I know this probably isn't really realistic/And honestly, I might not ever make a difference"

• "Everything I see is overdone to me, I'm not Adele"

Match

Match the text evidence with its sense. Appealing to the sense is called Imagery.

• "Maybe buy a house up in the hills, oh yeah"

• "Quiet when I'm tryna sing, quiet when I'm making beats"

• "forget the Happy Meals/I don't like the dollar menu, I would rather make a meal"

• "what I'm saying they ever push me, I'm gonna swing, yeah"

visual (sight)

sound (hearing)

taste

touch

• visual (sight)

• sound (hearing)

• taste

• touch

Match

Categorize the text evidence into the correct figurative language.

• "I know this probably isn't really realistic"

• "I'ma make 'em notice me, rhymin like it's poetry."

• "Quiet when I'm tryna sing, quiet when I'm making beats/Quiet when I'm tryna think..."

• "I understand you gotta crawl before you get to your feet"

• "Anybody wanna hear me rap?"

alliteration

Internal rhyme

repetition

idiom

rhetorical question

• alliteration

• Internal rhyme

• repetition

• idiom

• rhetorical question

Open Ended

What is the author trying to tell the audience in the song "When I Grow Up"?