Which excerpts from "The Caged Bird” can be interpreted as part of the extended metaphor that represents freedom? Choose three correct answers.
Which pair of uses of figurative language from “The Caged Bird” help support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression?
Read the passage from "The Caged Bird.” 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? Choose two correct answers.
Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.” But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage The connotation of narrow in the passage creates a feeling of
Read the excerpt from “The Caged Bird.” 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?
Read the passage from "The Caged Bird.” But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage 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 myself and curse my fate, Based on the figurative language, what do the speaker in Shakespeare’s sonnet and the caged bird in the poem have in common?
If another stanza were added to “The Caged Bird,” which excerpt could best be used to continue the extended metaphor?
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