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Jessica Mustafa
A)“By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”B) This appeals to sight because it’s giving a description of the area around the musician. C)The dull light represents how his life is fading away.

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“Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool” He is explaining how he is swaying while playing his music which shows even though he is sad he is still playing music and using it to cope with his pain.

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“With his ebony hands on each ivory key” (Line 9).
Describing contrast of colors with the pianist’s hands and the keys of the piano.
Further exemplifies the emergence of African American culture colliding with the country’s values and culture.

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A: “By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light “
B: appeals to the sense of sight

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“He slept like a rock or a mans that’s dead”

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A)“With his ebony hands on each ivory key”(line 9).
B)Sight
C)

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by the pale dull pallor of an old gas light 

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by the pale dull pallor of an old gas light 

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jessica and eli

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“With his ebony hands on each ivory key” (line 9).

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“With his ebony hands on each ivory key” (line 9).

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This is an example of imagery because the author is using descriptive language to paint a picture in the readers mind about what is happening in the poem.

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"By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light" line 5

Uses dull and pale to describe light

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Anthony Alex 😍“He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool” (line13).

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Anthony Alex 😍“He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool” (line13).

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This describes imagery because the tune like a musical fool is one of my five senses which is hearing. Musical sounds and instruments playing.
The music is describing the central idea of the poem with the musical sounds.

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Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon

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A. Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon
B.

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"He slept like a rock or a man that's dead" line 35.

He uses like or as

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“With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody” (Line 9).

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"He played that sad raggy tune like a fool".
This is an example of simile because it is comparing an him self as a fool

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Elhadji
TO THE TOON O’ THOSE WEARY BLUES” N8

It just doesn’t seem right to me to toon weary blues it’s seems more like an imaginary thing

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A.  "Thump, thump, thump, et his foot on the floor" (line 23).

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A.  "Thump, thump, thump, et his foot on the floor" (line 23).

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B This is an example of onomatopoeia because thump is a sound word that when you say it out loud it sounds like the actual sound it makes.

C. So this sound word is an image that shows how the man is coping with hardship using music. Also, the sound "thump" is a somewhat melancholy sound which underscores the sad mood and the idea that he man is just "coping" and not thriving.

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A.)“Or a man that’s dead”
Bhe makes the smilie stronger by adding a metaphor at the end and comparing him to a dead man which means he is emotionless and drained just like a man that isn’t alive.

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Jessica Mustafa
A)“He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead” B)This is a simile because he’s comparing sleeping to being a rock with the word like. C)This represents the poem because it shows how he’s dealing with the hardship in life how he gives up when he stops using his coping mechanism (playing music) it gets harder.

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A)“While the Weary Blues echoed through his head”(line 34).
B)”Weary Blues” is echoing through someone’s head. “Weary Blues is not a tangible object and it can physically echo through someones head.
C)Weary Blues is his sadness/coldness

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A. “He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead” (Line 34).
B. This is an example of similie because langston hughes is comparing the person thats sleeping and how he’s in deep sleep. The rock and death is being compared to sleep and to the man.
C. This is important to the poem because it represents that difficulty in life and how it only gets harder.

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A: “by the pale or dull pallor of an old gas light”

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A. “He made that poor piano moan with melody” (line 11).
B. A piano is a non-human thing and a piano can’t moan but a human can.
C. This reinforces the theme of the poem because is shows that the piano is moaning in sadness as he plays.

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The sad sound of a moaning piano helps to illustrate that when some people are faced with oppression their way of coping is to retreat from life. The sad sound of the piano is important because it is not hopeful or angry but rather it is suffering but still accepting.