What similes does the poet use to compare "a dream deferred” to? Check all that apply.

In Langston Hughes’s poem, the speaker asks whether a deferred dream dries up “like a raisin,” festers “like a sore,” stinks “like rotten meat,” or crusts over “like a syrupy sweet.” These comparisons use “like,” so they are similes. The explosion is presented as a possibility in the final question, not as a simile.

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