Response to Mother to Son Poem

The emotional poem between a mother and son there are many examples of figurative language. There are a couple metaphors and some hyperbole. The purpose of figurative language is to make the reader or person picture an image in their mind and be able to feel something that hurt or was good. One example of a metaphor in this book is "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. This is metaphor that really makes you think and imagine what it was like to be the mother and what she went through in her life. A couple hyperbole I think are when she was talking about how life ain't been no crystal stair, she said it had tacks in it, splinters and boards torn up. The crystal stair isn't really and neither are the tacks, splinter and boards torn up but it makes you imagine and feel the pain she went through in her life.