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    Checking Out Me History
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  • What is the opening line of the poem?
    Dem tell me
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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 two historical nurses does Agard reference?
    Mary Seacole/Florence Nightingale
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  • What motif is repeated throughout the poem?
    vision
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  • What is a motif?
    a recurring theme/idea
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  • What is the name of the poet?
    John Agard
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  • Where did the poet grow up?
    Guyana
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  • Finish the quote "Dem tell me about 10____ and all dat"
    1066
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  • What year was the poem published?
    2005
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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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  • Which structural technique (which means the line carries on) is littered throughout the poem?
    Enjambment
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  • How does Agard use structure to compare historical Black figures with eurocentric ones?
    Consecutive rhyme
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  • "Bandage up me eye with me own history" is a...
    metaphor
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  • Name one of the things Toussaint Louverture is compared to.
    beacon/thorn
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  • What does the speaker to do their own identity on the last line?
    Carve it
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