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

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.

langston hughes uses
a.) improvisation
b.) scat
c.) blues
d.) alliteration


a.) swing
b.) call and response
c.) alliteration
d.) syncopation