Reflection

 Today is officially the start of Black History Month. In celebration of Black History Month, my class went over a poem called "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes. What I learned from the poem was the amount of rhetoric and repetition used throughout the poem to put emphasis on his point. There are a couple examples of rhetoric that Langston Hughes used in the poem, which was the use of personification and simile. He then goes on to use anaphora by repeating the phrase "I've known rivers" to emphasize on the point that he has knowledge about his ancient culture before slavery. The main thing that I got from this lesson is that it's important to know our ancestry and that it still has a hold on us today.