Word Choice And Extended Metaphor In A Poem By Maya Angelou

28 August 2022
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. What is the figurative meaning of the excerpt?
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The caged bird has had his hope destroyed.
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I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret convulsive sobs . . . Clara chose this excerpt to help support her interpretation of "The Caged Bird" because it has an extended metaphor that examines
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suffering
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The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own. Which additional line best matches the tone of the stanza?
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and he drifts among the cottony clouds
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The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own What are the connotative meanings of sighing, as used in the poem? Check all that apply.
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relaxation peacefulness
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. Read the passage from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29." When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon me and curse my fate, In both poems, the connotation of the underlined language implies
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despair
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Which excerpts from "The Caged Bird" can be interpreted as part of the extended metaphor that represents freedom? Check all that apply.
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floats downstream the trade winds soft dawn-bright lawn
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A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.
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opportunity
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Which pair of uses of figurative language from "The Caged Bird" help support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression?
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dawn bright lawn; grave of dreams
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. Which word from the passage gives the best indication of the speaker's tone? dreams scream wings sing
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Scream
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But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage The connotation of narrow in the passage creates a feeling of indifference. monotony. satisfaction. suffocation.
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Suffocation