Read the following passage from Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B" and answer the question. It's not easy to know what is true for you or me
at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:
hear you, hear me-we two-you, me, talk on
this page.
(I hear New York, too.) Me-who?
Why does the speaker mention Harlem?
Harlem, as a predominantly poor black neighborhood, emphasizes the speaker's social and cultural background.
Harlem, as a predominantly rich and white neighborhood, emphasizes the speaker's social and cultural background.
Harlem is a made up city and supports the theme of dreaming.
Harlem represents all that the speaker is trying to escape.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

During the industrial age, what was one important way businesses told consumers about new products? through phonographs through telephones through telegraphs through catalogues

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?