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Even more than his rebellion against this restrictive tradition in African American art, Hughes s expression of the vibrant folk culture of Black people established his writing as a landmark in the history of African American literature. Most of his folk poems have the distinctive marks of this folk culture’s oral tradition: they contain many instances of naming and enumeration, considerable hyperbole and understatement, and a strong infusion of street-talk rhyming. There is a deceptive veil of artlessness in these poems. Hughes prided himself on being an impromptu and impressionistic writer of poetry. His, he insisted, was not an artfully constructed poetry. Yet an analysis of his dramatic monologues and other poems reveals that his poetry was carefully and artfully crafted. In his folk poetry we find features common to all folk literature, such as dramatic ellipsis, narrative compression, rhythmic repetition, and monosyllabic emphasis. The peculiar mixture of irony and humor we find in his writing is a distinguishing feature of his folk poetry. Together, these aspects of Hughes s writing helped to modify the previous restrictions on the techniques and subject matter of Black writers and consequently to broaden the linguistic and thematic range of African American literature.

1. The author mentions which one of the following as an example of the influence of Black folk culture on Hughes s poetry?

(A) his exploitation of ambiguous and deceptive meanings

(B) his care and craft in composing poems

(C) his use of naming and enumeration

(D) his use of first-person narrative

(E) his strong religious beliefs

2. The author suggests that the "deceptive veil" (line 42) in Hughes s poetry obscures

(A) evidence of his use of oral techniques in his poetry

(B) evidence of his thoughtful deliberation in composing his poems

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