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In paragraph one he says "Between me and the other world there is ever an unanswered question." This is an example of a metaphor because he is comparing him to the other worlds without using like or as.

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Du Bois uses the metaphor "O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand."It means that he loves the water and misses it.

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Du Bois uses the metaphor "O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand."It means that he loves the water and misses it.

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In this paragraph Dubois compares himself to a problem.Having a problem is bad because it's something you  do not want and in this case Dubois is a problem to society. Not to everyone, in his eyes only to the white community,as he says "And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe".Here Dubois states that he has been dealing with this his whole life and he has never been seen as an equal to a white person and has always been looked down on.- Jax Payne

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In this paragraph Dubois compares himself to a problem.Having a problem is bad because it's something you  do not want and in this case Dubois is a problem to society. Not to everyone, in his eyes only to the white community,as he says "And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe".Here Dubois states that he has been dealing with this his whole life and he has never been seen as an equal to a white person and has always been looked down on.- Jax Payne

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  Quick Write-Rosemarie                                                   In paragraph,"they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require." Its a metaphor because its comparing how bad his anger can get when they are saying hurtful things like that.He's not going to interact to make the situation big and worse then it is so he just keeps calm and not say anything.I interpret that he feels like if he says something then the situation will turn worse and get ugly real fast because he is a black man.

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  Quick Write-Rosemarie                                                   In paragraph,"they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require." Its a metaphor because its comparing how bad his anger can get when they are saying hurtful things like that.He's not going to interact to make the situation big and worse then it is so he just keeps calm and not say anything.I interpret that he feels like if he says something then the situation will turn worse and get ugly real fast because he is a black man.

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Du Bois uses this metaphor   ''All night long the water is crying to me.'' that is saying like the water was crying.'' that means like the waves could have been crashing together

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In the first passage, Du Bois states that," I had thereafter no
desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt..." In this sentence he uses figurative language by using the words "vast veil" as in he knows and sees the "other world" but is not apart of it and is left out.

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In the first paragraph Du Bois says, "Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like,
mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil." He uses a metaphor here to show the divide in society and to help the reader understand what it's like to be viewed from the "other world ". Because of him being different, it doesn't matter what he does; as long as he is viewed from the other side, he will always be seen as different and lesser. - Matthew Smith

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He says "And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else"  by saying he has always been is a problem he means he is black and everyone thinks blacks are the problem.

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He says "And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else"  by saying he has always been is a problem he means he is black and everyone thinks blacks are the problem.

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-Seth Evans

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In paragraph 2 it says "the sky was bluest when he beats his mates" His mates are the white kids that get to do whatever they want and he uses "beats" as a way of explaining winning. He wanted to show that he was the same as everyone else and can achieve things as well but he isn't allowed just because the color of his skin . this leads to him explaining "the vast veil" is the barrier that was created by white people and the black kids just have to be in like a "prison-house" with no escape.
madison boyd

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" The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait
and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod
darkly on in resignation" he uses figurative language to express/ give imagery on the way he feels towards the world

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Du Bois uses the metaphor "shut out from their world by a vast veil¨. He uses this to show the reader that he feels like he is being separated from ¨the other world¨. He uses a vast veil because he is still there and can see everything he just feels separated from everyone else. ¨Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others;¨ In the same sentence he states that he feels different from the whites.

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"Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like,
mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil." The figurative language used in the text compares a vast veil to a barrier formed between him and the "others". No matter what good he does, he is never seen as one of them; they always view him a someone less and "from the other world".

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"The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above." This is an example of figurative language because it compares  both races lifes to a prison. He uses the example of the prison because both races are trapped but differently. The whites are trapped in a better prison yet they are trapped in their racist thoughts. The black people however are trapped in in a prison with no opportunities and only have hope. This figurative language also helps the readers understand how much more opportunities the whites have compared to the black people.  The author put this quote to help readers see and feel how he felt.

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"The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above." This is an example of figurative language because it compares  both races lifes to a prison. He uses the example of the prison because both races are trapped but differently. The whites are trapped in a better prison yet they are trapped in their racist thoughts. The black people however are trapped in in a prison with no opportunities and only have hope. This figurative language also helps the readers understand how much more opportunities the whites have compared to the black people.  The author put this quote to help readers see and feel how he felt.

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-Yenifer M

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In paragraph 2 Du Bois states "The
exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,—refused it peremptorily, with a
glance."  is an example of figurative language.

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As in the text by Du Bois, he uses a metaphor to compare certain things such as: describing what the “prison-house” was, what the word unscalable meant as he described both of these things in the story. He describes the “sky was the bluest” when I beat people which means that he takes more advantage of what does best when the sky is blue. He uses this type of figurative language in his story to make the outline of it more understanding and to help our readers know what is being said.

- Tristan Patterson

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An example of figurative language used would be metaphors to give the reader a better understanding of the situation. For example, "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--- a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world". In this quote he uses "the veil" as the metaphor for the separation that is between the black society and "the other world" which is the white society.
-Andrea

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in paragraph one he says," between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question".  This is an example of a metaphor because he is hinting he is living between two worlds with unanswered questions.

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An example of figurative language that he uses is “  The shades of prison-house closed all around us”.  The prison house is being a  part of the black race.  The walls that are being closed are the opportunities for the blacks due to their race.  For the white people there are easy ways through but for the blacks it was very hard to get anywhere.  The walls were referred to being unscalable for his race.

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In paragraph 3 he states “The negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this american world.” He is using “veil” as a metaphor for black peoples separation from white people which they can not fully participate in, even though they can see it. Even though veil really means a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face. This plays a big role in “the souls of black folk” because it tints how they are able to live their life.

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In this paragraph Dubois compares himself to a problem.Having a problem is bad becuase its something you  do not want and in this case Dubois is a problem to society. Not to everyone, in his eyes only to the white community,as he says "And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe".Here Dubois states that he has been dealing with this his whole life and he has never been seen as an equal to a white person and has always been looked down on.-Brayan G