The speaker's tone in "Harlem" is best described as frustrated.
The poem's imagery helps to convey this tone. In discussing a deferred dream, Hughes describes a dried up raisin in the sun; a festering sore; stinking, rotting meat; and a sagging, heavy load. At the end of the poem, he wonders if the deferred dream just explodes.
This imagery helps provide the key to understanding the speaker's attitude, or tone, about his subject, the deferred dream. He is frustrated that these dreams are wasted.
1. African Americans faced discrimination.
2. Encouraged a revolutionary style of art.
3. Creating an identity for African Americans
4. It provided African Americans an opportunity to create a new identity by using art to express their feelings and experiences.
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C. Sensationalism is the correct answer
A. Animated/ brooding
Being animated is a form of being vivacious. Animated behavior or an animated person is characterized by energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, action and vigor.
Brooding on the other hand is similar to being sullen. Brooding involves engaging and appearing in deep thoughts of anger, pain or resentment.
