Literature, like verbal oratory makes an extensive use of rhetoric. It largely depends on its deliberate use of language in order to persuade the reader to a sympathetic cooperation. But, whereas we are aware of the persuasive nature of the verbal oratory in other rhetorical circumstances, due to its aesthetic effect, this aspect is concealed in literature. This helps literature to face less resistance from the audience. A reading of “Let America Be America Again” by Languston Hughes (1902-1967) illustrates this quality of rhetoric in literature. The poem provides a case in which the poet uses a number of rhetorical devices in order to attack rhetoric! It is also an example of how the deliberate use of persuasive language is concealed by getting the reader engaged in the dramatic rhetorical conflict. But when we scrutinize the poems we learn that the poem makes a triple use of rhetoric, that is to say, the poem is made up of two contradicting rhetorical acts in order to hide the poet’s own rhetorical persuasive thrust. For this study, I will base my analysis on the dialectic structure of the text that are worked through two rhetorical situations.