Read the lines from Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too, Sing America."

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Why does the speaker use the word "brother" in the first line of the stanza?

to indicate that he is someone’s brother
to indicate that his family makes him eat in the kitchen
to indicate that the arriving company is family
to indicate that people belong to same metaphorical family

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic