Question

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read the excerpt, and then complete the sentence that follows. Deferred by Langston Hughes (excerpt) This year, maybe, do you think I can graduate? I’m already two years late. Dropped out six months when I was seven, a year when I was eleven, then got put back when we come North… Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove I dreamed about when we first fell in love eighteen years ago. But you know, rooming and everything then kids. . . Me, I always did want to study French. It don't make sense— I'll never go to France, but night schools teach French. . . Someday, I'm gonna buy two new suits at once! All I want is one more bottle of gin. All I want is to see my furniture paid for. Langston Hughes uses and jazz formats in this poem to emphasize how African American dreams remained unfulfilled.

Answer 1

The correct words to fill in the blanks are "Syncopation" and "Improvisation." So the full sentence would be:

"Langston Hughes uses improvisation and syncopation jazz formats in this poem to emphasize how African American dreams remained unfulfilled."

We can arrive at this answer because:

• Langston Hughes portrayed the reality of African American society in his poems.

• He used many elements of black culture to reinforce the theme of his works.

• Jazz was something very representative of black culture and was used a lot in the poems of Langston Hughes.

In the excerpt shown in the question above, we can see that Langston Hughes of improvisation and syncopation, which are two characteristics of jazz that fit very well into the poem and the theme presented.

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