Read the following poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes and answer the question that follows.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore?
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over?
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Which literary device is used in the underlined words?
A.
rhyme
B.
alliteration
C.
assonance
D.
consonance

Question

Read the following poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes and answer the question that follows.
 
What happens to a dream deferred?
 
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore?
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over?
like a syrupy sweet?
 
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
 
Or does it explode?
 
Which literary device is used in the underlined words?
A.
rhyme
B.
alliteration
C.
assonance
D.
consonance

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

underlined words- Dream deferred, Does dry, syrupy sweet.