Langston Hughes: A Dream Deferred?

Question

What are the literary devices in this poem?

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-

And them run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it just explode?

Literary devices are like similes, metaphors, antithesis, rhyming of important phrases, irony to emphasize a point

etc

Answer 1

do you know what the definitions are of those literary devices you just listed?