Spoken Word Techniques - Revision exercises
Exercise #1 - Cedric and Jack (Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" video and lyrics)
Use any of the 4 techniques in the chorus "Get up, stand up / Stand up for your rights / Get up, stand up / Don't give up the fight. (1) use the imperative (or command) tense - tell someone or something what to do, each line has 2 commands; (2) use end rhyme "...rights...fight"; (3) use linked rhyme - "...stand up / Stand up..."; or, (4) repeat a hook, line, title, like the title of the song.
Exercise #2 - Hoang-Oanh and David (Johnny Cash's "Why Me Lord?" video and lyrics)
Use repetition of something like Help Me Jesus - could be Help me be brave, help me freedom, help me love, help me understand...You are trying to either ask for, receive, or express gratitude, maybe for something the narrator doesn't feel they deserve.
Exercise #3 - Jesse, Scott, & Ryan (Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" video and lyrics)
Use repetition like burn, burn, burn - also you could use motif such as fire motif: burn, flame, spark, crackle, blaze etc but to an image you already have.
Exercise #4 - Amy & Laurence (Carly Simon's "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" video and lyrics)
Use repetition 3 times as she does with something like "haven't got time for", but then change the last 2 things like she does - "haven't got time for the pain, the room for the pain, the need for the pain..." Change the words around to fit your poem.
Exercises #5 - Charlotte (John Lennon's "In My Life" video and lyrics)
Use your last line, cut part of it to be a hook - like "in my life" and repeat it throughout the poem, but then change it up - maybe even switching the way you say something - if you repeat I will make a difference, I will be heard, I will such and such - then switch it up at the end for "I will not be useless"
Exercises #6 - Sammy Lee (Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" video and lyrics)
Use repetition and end rhyme - same syllables, rhyming patterns at the end of the lines, stanzas.
Exercise #7 - MIchelle (Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" video and lyrics)
Change the last word to rhyme - like hand, sand, or feet and heat, as well use imagery and personification like "streets too dead for dreaming"
Exercise #1 - Cedric and Jack (Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" video and lyrics)
Use any of the 4 techniques in the chorus "Get up, stand up / Stand up for your rights / Get up, stand up / Don't give up the fight. (1) use the imperative (or command) tense - tell someone or something what to do, each line has 2 commands; (2) use end rhyme "...rights...fight"; (3) use linked rhyme - "...stand up / Stand up..."; or, (4) repeat a hook, line, title, like the title of the song.
Exercise #2 - Hoang-Oanh and David (Johnny Cash's "Why Me Lord?" video and lyrics)
Use repetition of something like Help Me Jesus - could be Help me be brave, help me freedom, help me love, help me understand...You are trying to either ask for, receive, or express gratitude, maybe for something the narrator doesn't feel they deserve.
Exercise #3 - Jesse, Scott, & Ryan (Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" video and lyrics)
Use repetition like burn, burn, burn - also you could use motif such as fire motif: burn, flame, spark, crackle, blaze etc but to an image you already have.
Exercise #4 - Amy & Laurence (Carly Simon's "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" video and lyrics)
Use repetition 3 times as she does with something like "haven't got time for", but then change the last 2 things like she does - "haven't got time for the pain, the room for the pain, the need for the pain..." Change the words around to fit your poem.
Exercises #5 - Charlotte (John Lennon's "In My Life" video and lyrics)
Use your last line, cut part of it to be a hook - like "in my life" and repeat it throughout the poem, but then change it up - maybe even switching the way you say something - if you repeat I will make a difference, I will be heard, I will such and such - then switch it up at the end for "I will not be useless"
Exercises #6 - Sammy Lee (Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" video and lyrics)
Use repetition and end rhyme - same syllables, rhyming patterns at the end of the lines, stanzas.
Exercise #7 - MIchelle (Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" video and lyrics)
Change the last word to rhyme - like hand, sand, or feet and heat, as well use imagery and personification like "streets too dead for dreaming"