Incident
Storyboard Text
- Title
- OLD BALTIMORE
- Paraphrase
- N*gger
- OLD BALTIMORE
- Figurative Language
- OLD BALTIMORE
- Some type of incident has happened to the author, that has had a lasting impact on the author's life.
- Attitude/Tone
- OLD BALTIMORE
- I was riding down in Baltimore happy as can be then I saw a person, he was staring at me than out of nowhere he said a racial slur at me. After that day I saw the true colors of my city.
- Shifts
- OLD BALTIMORE
- Black and White
- Heart-filled, head-filled (alliteration/parallelism)
- Title
- OLD BALTIMORE
- Sadness and melancholy
- In the first stanza, the shift comes after line 2
- N*gger
- After reading the poem our prediction was partly correct. The poem overall is about a racial encounter that the author had as a child.
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