MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip lest her own pride explode in front of MAMA) Yes, Lena.
(WALTER'S voice calls for them raucously)
WALTER (Off stage) Y'all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!
MAMA (Waving RUTH out vaguely) All right, honey - go on down. I be down directly.
(RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on
the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls
and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving
thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate
look, ptulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door
opens and she comes ba in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time) Curtain
How does this excerpt contribute to the theme of A Raisin in the Sun? What aesthetic impact did the author
intend it to have on the reader? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification