- "Crowding each other like frightened cattle."
2. Metaphor:
- "Their huts like sores upon the city's face."
3. Personification:
- "The city hungers for their little ones."
4. Alliteration:
- "huts huddled together"
- "little light, little air, little laughter"
- "starving, sickly, sad survivors."
5. Assonance:
- "Slum Dwelling"
- "Crowding each other"
- "huts huddled together"
- "Their huts like sores"
6. Consonance:
- "little light, little air, little laughter"
- "starving, sickly, sad survivors."
7. Hyperbole:
- "The city hungers for their little ones."
8. Irony:
- "little laughter"
- "They live, but they do not know why."
9. Enjambment:
- Throughout the poem, Davis uses enjambment to create a sense of urgency and to convey the crowded, chaotic nature of the slums. For example:
> Their huts like sores upon the city's face,
> Crowding each other like frightened cattle.
10. Symbolism:
- "Their huts like sores"
- "The city hungers"