Half-Caste Flashcards
1
Q
What is the message of the poem?
A
The term ‘half-caste’ makes mixed race feel inferior, and it often offends them.
2
Q
Give three examples of the non-standard English used.
A
‘half of mih eye, wha yu mean, well in dat case’
3
Q
Finish the quote - ‘When you say half-caste, yu mean Tchaikovsky…’
A
‘Sit down at dah piano, and mix a black key, wid a white key, is a half-caste symphony.’
4
Q
Finish the quote - ‘I close half-a-eye…’
A
‘Consequently when I dream.’
5
Q
Finish the quote - ‘Yu mean when light an shadow, mix in de sky…’
A
‘Is a half-caste weather.’
