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Hip Hop & ShakespeareAkala & the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company

For the following quotes, choose whether you believe the quote is from Hip Hop or Shakespeare.

1. To destroy the beauty from which one came

Hip Hop Shakespeare

2. Maybe it's hatred I spew; maybe it's food for the spirit

Hip Hop Shakespeare

3. Men would rather use their broken weapons than their bare hands

Hip Hop Shakespeare

4. I was not born under a rhyming planet

Hip Hop Shakespeare

5. The most benevolent king communicates through your dreams

Hip Hop Shakespeare

6. Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define

Hip Hop Shakespeare

7. Akala makes the point that it's hard to distinguish between hip hop and Shakespeare when the context& perception is taken away and you're left with the raw language of the two art forms. Do you

agree with this statement? Why or why not?

8. What are some of the things that hip hop and Shakespeare share?

9. By writing in iambic pentameter, what did Shakespeare enable his rhymes to do?

10. What does Akala call iambic penameter (he says to place your hand over your heart in order to feel

it)?

11. Akala makes the point that iambic pentameter often acts as a mnemonic device-- something that helps

readers to remember the words easier. Do you think putting words to a rhythm enables you toremember the information better? Why or why not?

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