Whitman is mainly writing about the employed people who have jobs and are relatively well off and who contribute to society in the millions doing the tasks according to their trade or profession and are what he considers the "backbone of society" whereas Langston Hughes gives a different picture of America of the black people who must retire to the kitchen and hide themselves when guests come (by inference to a white person's place) and who must suffer unemployment and economically difficult times often.But in spite of that, he remains optimistic that things will get better for black Americans.
Answer:
Authorized personnel only.
Explanation:
"Personal" is written wrong.
The author intended to create a bittersweet mood. Though the overseas trip has ended, and there is a happy crowd waiting for the ship to dock, the captain, who is the narrator's father, is dead. The vocabulary and phrases used, like exulting, the prize we sought is won, eager faces, etc, describe happiness. But phrases like cold and dead, pale and still, and mournful tread, describe death, making the poem's mood bittersweet.
Answer:
: a direct comparison of two essentially unlike things, often using the word like or as.
Explanation:
He hurried home like a snake slithering into its hole.
• Metaphor: a less direct comparison of two essentially unlike things.
Past participles,
End in -ed: the cracked windows have been fixed.
Cracked is the past participle.
End in -en: the broken window was expensive to repair.
Broken is the past participle.
End with an irregular ending: the lost coin was never found.
Lost is the past participle.
Present participles end in -ing:
The crying baby had a wet nappy/diaper.
Crying is the present participle.
The smiling girl is my sister.
Smiling is the present participle.
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