Afro-American Fragment By Langston Hughes Publication Information Not Available

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Afro-American Fragment By Langston
HughesPublication Information Not Available

• Presented by Sierra Longwell and Eric Blankenship

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This Poem Should Be Kept Because.

• This poem represents many literary elements.
• This poem appeals to diverse students.

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Rhythm and Rhyme

• So long,
• So far away
• Is Africa.
• Not even memories alive
• Save those that history books create,
• This is written in mostly iambic feet, but
  overall it is free-verse.
• It conains no rhyme.

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Repetition

• In lines 14 and 23, Langston Hughes uses
  repetition.
• Through some vast mist of raceDark face.
• Also, in lines 15 and 20, he also uses
  repetition.
• There comes this song..So long.

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Alliteration

• Langston Hughes uses alliteration a lot in this
  poem, like in lines 5, 6, 7, and 8.
• Save those that history books create,
• Save those that songs
• Beat back into the blood-
• Beat out of blood with words sad sung.

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Consonance

• Langston Hughes uses consonance in lines 9, 14,
  and 18.
• Line 9In strange, un-Negro tongue-
• Line 14 Through some vast mist of race
• Line 18 Of bitter yearning lost

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Repetition

• In this poem, Langston Hughes uses repetition in
  lines 1-3, 10-12, and 20-22, all saying the same
  thing.
• So long,
• So far away,
• Is Africa.

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Personification

• Langston Hughes uses personification in lines 22
  and 23.
• Is Africas
• Dark face.
• Obviously, since Africa is a continent there is
  no way it can have a face. It also may refer to
  that Africas people have a dark face.

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Parallelism

• Langston Hughes uses parallelism in lines 5 and
  6.
• Save those that history books create,
• Save those that songs..

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Assonance

• Langston Hughes uses assonance in lines 16 and
  17, and 13-15.
• Lines 13-15 Are the drums-and yet
• Through some vast mist of race
• Comes this song.
• Lines 16 and 17 I do not understand
• This song of atavistic land,

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Conclusion

• This poem deserves to be kept because it has many
  different literary elements such as alliteration,
  consonance, and repetition.
• It also is appealing to diverse groups of
  students.