Read the sentence from Langston Hughes's story "Gumption": "Ain't this the place what's giving all the white folks jobs doing what they used to doing and know how to do? My boy ain't know nothing about no pick and shovel." What kind of language does Hughes use in these sentences? A. dialect, to add to the story's realism B. descriptive, to add to the story's sensory details C. figurative, to add to the story's layers of meaning D. symbolic, to add to the story's theme

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Mary Morales

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17 March, 15:34

Read the sentence from Langston Hughes's story "Gumption": "Ain't this the place what's giving all the white folks jobs doing what they used to doing and know how to do? My boy ain't know nothing about no pick and shovel." What kind of language does Hughes use in these sentences? A. dialect, to add to the story's realism B. descriptive, to add to the story's sensory details C. figurative, to add to the story's layers of meaning D. symbolic, to add to the story's theme

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Joslyn Sawyer · Answer 1

The kind of language that Hughes utilises is A. dialect, to add to the story's realism. It is dialect because you can imagine an uneducated, Southern African-American person talking. Someone that would likely be a character in "Gumption" would sound this way.