Question

What is one example of figurative language from the poem.What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode

Answer 1

An example of figurative language in this poem can be found in the stanzas "Does it dry up/Like a raisin in the sun?" where a simile can be found in the comparison through the use if the word "like". In other words, it is comparing something to a raisin in the sun.