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Literary Devices In Mother To Son, By Langston Hughes

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In the poem “Mother to Son”, the author Langston Hughes uses literary devices such as metaphors and tone to imply that anyone should persevere through hardships. To begin, Hughes uses metaphors widely throughout the poem. A mother, refers to life being rough, rather than smooth like a crystal stair, signifying that she grew up in a poorer home. “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” (Hughes 2). Crystal stair refers to how easy it was to climb the “ stairs of life”, without any hardships in the way, and evidently, this did not occur for the speaker. The metaphor “crystal stair” (Hughes 2) is continued into the third line, where our speaker tells her son, that her stairs had tacks in it. Since her “stairs” were not smooth, the term “tacks”
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