AIM: Can I Identify the Literary Devices in Langston Hughes, “Po’ Boy Blues” and “The

Weary Blues”?

DO NOW: Go over HomeworkHomework: Read “What is Blues”

and answer the questions.

• Po’ Boy Blues– Written by Langston

Hughes– Written around 1926-

1927– Rhyme scheme of AB AB

• The Weary Blues– Written by Langston

Hughes– Written in 1925– awarded best poem of

the year by Urban League Magazine

Literary Devices

• Simile• Personification• Onomoatopoeia• Alliteration• Symbolism• Allusion

• Idiom• Hyperbole• Metaphor• Assonance• Rhyme• Tone/Mood