English

Mya

5 August, 15:21

Which excerpt represents the call-and-response format derived from jazz music?

A) Deferred

by Langston Hughes (excerpt)

Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove

I dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

But you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

But now my daughter's married

And my boy's most grown--

quit school to work--

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove--

Maybe I can buy that white enamel stove!

B) Island

by Langston Hughes (excerpt)

Black and white,

Gold and brown--

Chocolate-custard

Pie of a town.

Dream within a dream,

Our dream deferred.

Good morning, daddy!

Ain't you heard?

C) Harlem

by Langston Huges (excerpt)

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-