Match the literary characteristics to their respective poets. romanticizes the life of the laborerlooks forward to racial equalityuses repetition for emphasispart of the Harlem Renaissanceavoids traditional poetic devicesdescribes a fragmented United States

I am going to assume we only have to choose from Whitman and Hughes. This is how I would match those poets to the literary characteristics:1. Walt Whitman:

- romanticizes the life of the laborer: we can see that in his "A Song for Occupations" where he sings about laborers and their idyllic lives

- uses repetition for emphasis: he often repeats certain words in his poems in order to highlight a meaning

- avoids traditional poetic devices: he uses unorthodox poetic devices which are not usually found in poems, especially of that period

2. Langston Hughes:

- part of the Harlem Renaissance: this refers to the movement of black artists, one of which was Hughes

- looks forward to racial equality: this one is obvious

- describes a fragmented United States: fragmented over slavery and equality, mostly