The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Langston Hughes

January 14, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: Social Science, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology
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By: Langston Hughes By: Brett H and Wilson F

Figurative Language “My soul has grown deep like the river” – Simile “I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep” – Alliteration “Older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” Metaphor

Imagery  “Ancient, dusky rivers”  “I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.”

Sound Devices  “. . .human blood in human veins.”

Mood/Feeling  Despair  Hard-working  Old (Because they often use the word ‘ancient’)

Message/Theme  When he was a slave, he worked very hard and has seen it all basically  He is very old  In every civilization, there is a river and back then almost every civilization had slaves so slaves know rivers well.  Also everybody he knows (friends, family, etc.) have seen those rivers and told him stories about them.

Make prediction about ‘Call of the Wild’  Maybe the character is a very hard worker like a slave  Character knows about a lot of rivers around him

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