Thank You Ma'am Smore
By Kiarra Randall
Imagery
Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
"She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but a hammer and nails."
By having that text from the passage a clear description was given of Mrs. Jones. Therefore imagery is detailed descriptions that makes it easy to visualize.
Another is when they said "He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and jeans" for the description given of Roger is a similar concise.
Conflict
takes him home with her, talks to him, feeds him dinner, and then gives him ten dollars for the shoes. Mrs. Jones chose to see the good in Roger rather than to treat him as a criminal.
Tone
Tone is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.The tone in "Thank You, M'am" is informally conversational. Hughes is not trying to impress anybody he is just trying to tell his story in a straightforward, simple way, like you might hear in a regular conversation.
This tone is obvious in some of the phrases he uses, once he said “the being-dragged boy” because Mrs. Jones has overpowered roger