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Incident - an event or occurence
Makes the reader ask - what is this incident? who is involved? - draws interest
Alliteration - "Heart-filled, head-filled"
Rhythm - ABAB - using sing-song cadence to talk about deep issues - irony
Tone - colloquial (ex: use of contractions, "keep looking")
Dialogue - emphasises the word "Nigger" at the end of the line - use of quotes
Structure - an anecdote in three stanzas written as a ballad
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue and called me, “Nigger.”
I saw the whole of Baltimore,
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there, That’s all that I remember.
-African American man (1903-1946)
-Leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance
-Influenced by many white institutions but also exerienced racism firsthand
-Wrote "Incident" in 1925
Setting: Baltimore
Vehicle: on a bus
In the 1920s, public transportation was where people of different races were forced to interact - racial conflict
Time: May - December