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Figurative Language In Harlem And Annabel Lee

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Figurative language is used to convey the tones and moods of the story. To demonstrate, the poems, “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, “Teenagers” by Pat Mora, and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe all use figurative language to convey the tones and moods of their stories. To begin, in the poem “Harlem” Langston Hughes uses similes with a gloomy tone to convey his feelings in the poem. After asking what happens to dreams deferred he explains “Does it dry up-- like a raisin in the sun?” Langton first asks us what happens to a dream that is put on hold, then he continues with “Does it dry up--” meaning is it just forgotten and left to rot because you never return to that dream. He uses “like” to compare the dream to a raisin drying up in the sun as it
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