Alliteration - Edo G.

 

"Elevate and educate the way the elements should

I eliminate embarrassments eloquently...." Edo G.

Score one for the Roxbury!

"Layin like a gay model... - Ghostface Killah"

Getting my students to spend time on developing the characters in their stories is like pulling teeth. Some of them simply lack the ability to write descriptively while others don't see the value in it. What I tell them is that it is the characters that pull us into stories and movies. Good writers use description that allows the reader to love, hate, envy characters. We can envision them. Movies however have the benefit of the viewer being able to see the clothing, gestures, and disposition of the actors while prose does not have that benefit.

While there are many great story tellers in Hip-Hop music, one of the greatest is Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan. One of the things that separates him from the others is his intense dedication to character development in his writing.

This is exemplified on a song titled "Malcolm" from his second solo album Supreme Clientele. Ghost not only spends time describing individuals, but damn near uses the entire first verse exclusively for it.