Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: What role does language play in African American and literature.For Ken Saro-Wiwa, an African writer who spoke three African languages became literate with the Eng

Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: What role does language play in African American and literature.

For Ken Saro-Wiwa, an African writer who spoke three African languages became literate with the English language as he was encouraged to use it in the schools he attended as a required language or as the need required because students with different languages found English as their common denominator that allowed them to understand each other.

Another kind of language which is greatly used in literature is figures of speech like metaphor and simile among others. Figurative language is widely used in literature to express thoughts in another form other than directly saying things using words that seem to dictate what readers or listeners should picture, limiting their understanding. Instead, figurative language is used to express hidden meanings that could be interpreted by readers and relate them to their experiences with the use of meanings of words and symbolisms used in the literature. For instance, Robert Frost in his poem A Patch of Old Snow, expressed in the first paragraph, “Theres a patch of old snow in a corner that I should have guessed was a blow-away paper the rain had brought to rest” may be descriptive and narrative in form, bringing a picture of the circumstance in one’s mind. On the other hand, the reader when analyzing it, would come to question how the poet could have not noticed the paper thus may concluded that the speaker was unobservant enough not to have noticed that the snow he supposed to have seen is but a piece of paper. Thus, this kind of language is important not only in American and African literature but in other literatures as well.

Willie Lynch’s expressions of the language in The Making of a Slave, used in the modern age in a civilized world’s perception are not applicable, that is, in its literal sense. With the speaker’s suggestion that a slave owner should use force, fear, pain and violence to speak to