Test By Dust Figurative Language

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In Spring 1934, the central idea is that the Dust Bowl is getting worse, but the families are still surviving in spite of all the trauma. First, there is examples of perseverance and trauma in the poems. In Tested By Dust, Billie Jo and her class are taking a test during a dust storm, and that shows that even though everything was bad, the Dust Bowl survivors still found time for education. In Beat Wheat, the author explains how horrible the wheat situation is. Also, there is a surplus of figurative language in the text. In Beat Wheat, there is a perfect metaphor for the problem; “I look at Joe and know our future is drying up and blowing away with the dust”. In Apple Blossoms, there is repetition; “In spite of the dust, in spite of the

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