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Similes In Harlem By Langston Hughes

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While writing, authors incorporate the meanings of poems through style choices. Different forms of style may include similes, metaphors or personification. In the poem “Harlem”, Langston Hughes compares ignored dreams to dying objects, to represent what happens to people who have the potential to be successful, but are never given the opportunity to, due to society looking at them as inferior. To portray the meaning of the poem, that when people are not given the chance to evolve themselves, their potential to succeed diminishes, Hughes uses similes. In the text Hughes asks, “Does it dry up-- like a raisin in the sun?” He uses the simile to directly compare a drying raisin to a dream, to represent what happens over time to a goal when it
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