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hyperbole

"Everything I see speaks to me"pg 1-- I think he was trying to say that he liked his surroundings and everything around him was perfect to him I guess

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Pg1 “ 125th Street is alive”
The meaning of this quote is that the 125th Street is getting his attention. The way that the street looks like and the way is colorful is just getting his attention. Langston likes how the 125th street feels like and how the streets makes his mood happy. It's not only the street it's the people that are on the street they make him happy.

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Personification - "I heard the singing of the Mississippi" You can't really hear the Mississippi singing, it's a river ! So, it's personification. They are probably trying to make the reader think better towards Langston's nature and how he feels about it. At the end, it's all about rhythm and, if you think a little about this, poems are kind of like songs. Anyways, in a river, you can only hear animal calls, branches moving in the wind, and the waves of the water.

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Hyperbole

"My soul has grown deep like the river"

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Inside jacket cover- “...imagination takes flight.”
The use of hyperbole helps the reader to understand just how creative Langston Hughes could be and how excited he was in sharing his life experiences, and those of other African Americans,  through literature. We can picture him sitting quietly on the train as ideas pop into his head and then are crafted into a poem on an envelope from his father.  You can picture a gleam in his eye as he imagines sharing this poem with others.
This impacts the tone of the text in a positive way. The fact that Langston is inspired and wants to inspire others shows the positive nature of the text.

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Simile
"....Poems are like rainbows... "
Using similes in a story helps us readers see a comparison of like or as . I think what the simile really is trying to compare is the silimilates poems and rainbows have which is poems are colorful , bright , amazing. I feel Langston Hughes wants his poems to be compared to rainbows , that is how he describes his poems.

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"I've heard the Musky water lapping and singing" Musky water cant sing or lap, therefore it is personification.

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Personification "...125th Street is alive" Pg  1
The meaning is that on that street people are active and doing things. Instead of saying of saying that it was a busy street but it wasn't. This street had enjoyment and people having fun with everyone getting along. With this being said It shows us how Langston saw this street. Taking in everything that is going around and giving it a high spirit.

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“I heard the singing of the Mississippi”

You can't hear the Mississippi singing, it's a river! Therefore, it's Personification. The author is probably trying to make the reader think better of nature and how Langston feels about it. It's all about rhythm. And, if you think about it, poems are kinda like songs. Besides, in a river, you may hear things like animal calls, branches moving in the breeze, the waves of the water, etc., and it's just being considered as singing.

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Onomatopeia
"A whirr vibrating in the air"

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Simile - My soul grows deep like the rivers.
I think this mean that that the river will always be apart of him and he will always remember how important this river means to him. And that he might not have been there but his ancestors worked there. And he new the struggle they had to go through so he can have a better life.

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It means that this place was a very nasty place and also not the best or nicest place to work in terms of environment this is also the showing of how Langston is giving details about the life of the people before him and the conditions and reasons why he picks these kinds of topics

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Simile
“...Poem flowed into my soul like an ancient river of love for my people.” p 12

Langston is expressing and comparing how the poem and the river where linked to each other. He  is explaining the diversity in his life because of his race. also he is saying his love for his people no matter what color, he will always love them.

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"My thoughts roam"

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" ...Poems are like rainbows "

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"Everything i see speaks to me-to me!"
Not everything can really speak, not everything will speak to you as you walk by. What Hughes is trying to say is sarcastic because when you walk down the street there might only be people talking talking to you, nothing other than that. I don't think the walls,floors, etc. Will speak to you. He can be imagining that they are but it's not realistic. Hughes can possibly be saying that Langston missed how things used to be, and now that he's back everything is just coming back to him.

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Onomatopoeia: "Clackety clack clack clack"
He can hear the railroad as he's on the train.

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'Onomatopoeia~¨The train rumbles¨ pg 7
The sound that the train is making .

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"My soul grows deep like the river."
I think the reason why langston Hughes se this part is that he is saying that a river could be shallow and the person does not go down far.But For a river that goes deep is a person who is determined to do something. -Juan

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"Poems are like rainbows, don't you think. They escape if you're not quick.”
What this is trying to say is that if you sit there and think about the poem on just one stanza , the other stanzas might not come to you as easily if you juts wrote it down and writing one after another, and then editing later.

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“My thoughts roam”.Page 8

Your thoughts can't actually roam. It actually means that he had a lot of his thoughts were coming fast at him.He trying to say that he had a lot of things on his mind and had to turn it,into poetry.