Question

1. Who is the speaker/persona in the poem?
2. To what does the mother compared her life? Why did she compare her life to a stair?
3. What is the speaker doing in the poem?
4. What was the tone used by the author in the poem?
5. What have you noticed in the word choices of the author? Does it tell us something about the author's background?
6. What writing technique was used by the author?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 langston hughes

2 she compared her life to a well worn ragged stairaway ,for her life life has not been easy

3 the person speaking in this poem is the poet mother. purposeis to tell her son that life will be a hard climb for him

4 the tone was of her mother.

5 the poem explore the dignity and the determination of the person.

6 technique .. an extended metaphor ,imagery, dailect