Metaphor is the literary device in which two disconnected/different things are compared. Simile is also a comparison between two disconnected things, but simile uses words such as "like" or "as", while metaphor simple states that "one thing is another".
"<em>The crest of each of these waves was a hill</em>, from the top of which men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven." - Metaphor.
"As each wave came, and she [the boat] rose for it, <em>she seemed like</em> a horse making at a fence outrageously high." - Simile.
Personification gives human characteristics to objects, animals or ideas.
"If <em>this old fool woman, Fate</em>, cannot do better than this..." - Personification.
Symbolism is when a word is used to symbolize something else. In this example, "uncertainties" represent the waves.
"The open boat is described as 'bobbing along among the universe's uncertainties." - Symbolism.
The question ask to choose among the following choices that states the correct analysis that represent the contrast of the both poems and the best answer would be # 3. <span>In Whitman's poem, the workers use their voices to proclaim an American identity in which each person plays an equal part. In contrast, in Hughes's poem, the speaker rejects sharing a meal with others at the table, demonstrating that everyone has an equal opportunity to be part of the American identity if they so choose.</span>
Answer and Explanation:
The paragraph to which this question refers is the following:
<em>He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable origin—to the severe and long-continued illness—indeed to the evidently approaching dissolution—of a tenderly beloved sister, his sole companion for long years, his last and only relative on earth...</em>
<u>Even though what we have here is indirect speech - the narrator retelling Usher's words -, the author made sure to represent the way in which Usher himself was speaking. He was telling the narrator about his mental state and about a condition he believes he possesses (extreme sensory acuteness, according to him). </u><u>However, once Usher begins to reveal that this condition of his is related to his sister's disease and death, he seems to go out of breath. He interrupts himself, adding details in a hurried way, which is represented by the phrases enclosed by the dashes. Therefore, we can say the author structures these sentence in this way to show Usher's shortness of breath and rushed speech.</u>
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
