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What does the speaker to do their own identity on the last line?
Carve it
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Which two historical nurses does Agard reference?
Mary Seacole/Florence Nightingale
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How does Agard use structure to compare historical Black figures with eurocentric ones?
Consecutive rhyme
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What were the Caribs and Arawaks the original inhabitants of?
Trinidad
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What is a motif?
a recurring theme/idea
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What happened when Columbus arrived in Trinidad in 1498?
The inhabitants were enslaved, killed, or died from new diseases
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Where did the poet grow up?
Guyana
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What is the name of a technique when a line is repeated like a chorus?
Refrain
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What does eurocentrism mean?
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as pre-eminent
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Which structural technique (which means the line carries on) is littered throughout the poem?
Enjambment
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What is the name of the Trinidadian traditional music in which the poem is performed in?
Calypso
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Why does Agard mention nursery rhymes such as "de cow who jump over de moon"?
To emphasise how we are taught nonsensical, fictional history rather than real Black history
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