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Question 1 (2 points)

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Madam and the Rent Man

By Langston Hughes

The rent man knocked.
He said, Howdy-do?
I said, What
Can I do for you?
He said, You know
Your rent is due.

In the first stanza of the poem, above, which literary device is used when Hughes names the antagonist "rent man?"

Question 1 options:

onomatopeoeia


alliteration


idiom


foreshadowing

Answer 1

Foreshadowing

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Answer 2

Foreshadowing because he’s asking for rent later in the poem