Part a

what effect does the word head have on the meaning of this passage?

it indicates he would be a good preacher.

it demonstrates how intelligent he was.

it reveals how self-important he was.

it shows he was a favorite of the teachers.
question 2
part b

how does the choice of the word head contribute to the passage’s tone?

it adds a sense of pride.

it offers a sense of entitlement.

it creates a sense of hopefulness.

it provides a sense of tradition

the answer is c. the wind

this might :

where is the passage?

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

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!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

is the answer