Monday, October 23, 2017

Call and Response in HWBC

According to oxforddictionaries.com, “call and response” is “a form of verbal interaction between a speaker and listeners, usually at religious or public gatherings, in which each utterance by the speaker elicits a response from the audience.”

The poems on pages 146, 171, and 177, among others, contain examples of call and response.

Choose one poem.  How do you know which lines are calls and which are responses?  How does this format contribute to the meaning of the poem as a whole?  What other literary devices are integrated with the call and response format?

Find a partner and coauthor a call and response poem. 

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