Langston Hughes

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

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What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

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What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

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I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

The tone may best be described as (2)

• solemn

• prideful

• angry

• positive

Bring me all of your dreams,

Your dreamers,

Bring me all of your heart melodies

That I may wrap them

In a blue cloud-cloth

Away from the too-rough fingers

Of the world.

The mood is best described as --

• gloomy

• carefree

• serious

• silly

Bring me all of your dreams,

Your dreamers,

Bring me all of your heart melodies

That I may wrap them

In a blue cloud-cloth

Away from the too-rough fingers

Of the world.

The tone is best described as --

• dreamy

• petty

• pretentious

• incisive

Hungry Child

I didn’t make this world for you.

You didn’t buy any stock in my railroad.

You didn’t invest in my corporation.

Where are your shares in standard oil?

I made the world for the rich.

And the will-be-rich.

And the have-always-been-rich.

Not for you.

Hungry Child.

The purpose of this selection is to --

• to draw attention to the wealthy's jobs

• to make the wealthy happy

• to convey the angst of the poor

• to point out an unacceptable disparity

In poetry, an apostrophe is a term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem.

• He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.

  Sweet Blues!

  Coming from a black man’s soul.

  O Blues!

• I am the young man, full of strength and hope

• Help me to shatter this darkness,

  To smash this night,

  To break this shadow

  Into a thousand lights of sun,

  Into a thousand whirling dreams

  Of sun!

• Insurance man, he did not pay—

  His insurance lapsed the other day—

  Yet they got a satin box

  for his head to lay.

Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. ... Therefore, a hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize the real situation

• He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.

  Sweet Blues!

  Coming from a black man’s soul.

  O Blues!

• I am the young man, full of strength and hope

• Help me to shatter this darkness,

  To smash this night,

  To break this shadow

  Into a thousand lights of sun,

  Into a thousand whirling dreams

  Of sun!

• Insurance man, he did not pay—

  His insurance lapsed the other day—

  Yet they got a satin box

  for his head to lay.

Which type of figurative language is represented in the following line:

"Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?"

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

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