Langston Hughes Use Rhetorical Devices

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One piece that I have done this year is my TP- Dastt Analysis assignments over different poems written by other great poetry writers. All of the poems consists of many rhetorical devices, and I can identify them now, now have a better understanding of now as i've developed in my learning throughout the year. We were to identify how the author used rhetorical devices to demonstrate their overall meaning and purpose.
I selected this piece of writing because it displays my knowledge of what we have been taught over rhetorical devices and how to identify them in a text. What really caught my attention over this, was how Langston Hughes used similes very consistently, the way he describes allows me to get a full understanding of his message.
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