Read the excerpt from "harlem."

does it stink like rotten meat?
or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

me !

read the excerpt from "the weary blues."

droning a drowsy syncopated tune
rocking back and forth to a mellow croon

in both poems, hughes uses the imagery to

a. establish tone.
b. offer background information.
c. convey a criticism.
d. conjure pleasant memories.

A) To establish tone.

Explanation: Imagery is a literary device that consists in the use of figurative language or detailed descriptions in order to evoke the senses of the reader and to create a mental picture. The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. In both given excerpts, we can see that Hughes uses imagery to establish the tone.

there is no passage what do you mean?

give me the passage and i will answer your question

i think it's either 'to expose the corruption of the communists in russia', or 'to criticize animal brutality by communists in russia.'  

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