Poetry and Figurative Language CFD Review

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Who is the speaker in the poem?

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Mother

Answer explanation

The speaker is mother, and she is telling her son life lessons.

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Langston Hughes: "life for me ain't been no crystal stair"

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Life has been difficult for the mother.

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"Don’t you set down on the steps" has:

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Alliteration

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The crystal stairs are:

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A symbol

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Theme of the poem?

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Although life is difficult, keep pushing and you'll make it through.

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"The students started to drop like flies once cold and flu season hit" is an example of a...

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Simile

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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" is an example of...

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Alliteration

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An overarching idea in writing is

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Theme

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Personification example?

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A picture says a thousand words.

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Allusion is

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When something from an unrelated text is referred to covertly or indirectly.