Chicano Literary Techniques

Song #1:
Identify: it is colonial I think
Theme: Spirituality, it talks about following signs and prophets, etc.
Literary Techniques: Imagery and Symbolism
Song #2:
Identify: Chicano
Theme: gang violence, it talks about being shot at and gang life
Literary Techniques: Symbolism
Song #3:
Identify: colonial, maybe pre-cuauhtemoc
Theme: Culture, theres not much words and when there is I only understand trabajador which is a worker so its also about workers or working
Literary Techniques: Imagery
Song #4:
Identify: post revolutionary
Theme: history and culture because she goes into detail about how life is within her own culture and the history
Literary Techniques: Imagery, symbolism, and similes
Song #5:
Identify: post revolutionary
Theme: I
didn’t really understand it much, but I think he was talking about the race and how stereotypical people are and how ignorant and close minded people could be
Literary Techniques: metaphors and imagery
Song #6:
Identify: maybe colonial or early national
Theme: I didn’t understand it well, but I understood corazon so maybe cultural is the theme, like she and the guy are proud of their culture
Literary Techniques: symbolism
Song #7:
Identify: revolutionary
Theme: spirituality, he expresses his beliefs and what he stands for
Literary Techniques: symbolism
Song #8:
Identify: revolutionary
Theme: history because he brings up the history of us in the past and the holocaust and also violence because he mostly focuses on war and the violence
Literary Techniques: rhyming and imagery
Song #9:
Identify: cultural
Theme: labor because it talks about field workers and the work they do and the heat and other obstacles they have to overcome and also spirituality because he talks about the spirits he feels and the earth
Literary Techniques: imagery
Song #10:
Identify: chicano
Theme: it talks about violence and blood so police brutality
Literary Techniques: imagery
Song #11:
Identify: some kind of rock, pre cuauhtemoc
Theme: not sure, maybe religion because I heard Huitzilopochtli and I think he was some god to the mayans
Literary Techniques: didn’t understand it enough to answer this question, rhyming maybe
Song #12:
Identify: colonial
Theme: gender I think because they’re singing to a boy and a girl
Literary Techniques: symbolism
Song #13:
Identify: chicano and revolutionary
Theme: coming together so maybe race because he says cinco de mayo and cinco de mayo is when my family comes together so I think that’s what hes talking about but the beat sounds violence os thats why I put revolutionary also
Literary Techniques: symbolism
Song #14:
Identify: chicano
Theme: gang violence because I heard vato and the beat sounds like it would be related to gangsters
Literary Techniques: rhyming and symbolism
Song #15:
Identify: chicano
Theme: gang violence because he talks about death and it being the way of life
Literary Techniques: symbolism
Song #16:
Identify: revolutionary
Theme: race and spirituality because it talks about the racism and boundaries but yet he preaches saying “oh yeah you know what I’m sayin”
Literary Techniques: imagery
Song #17:
Identify: colonial
Theme: police brutality because the girl talks about the police abusing them and how many years do they have to wait before things change
Literary Techniques: imagery and symbolism