Word Choice and Extended Metaphor in a Poem by Maya Angelou Answers

Which pair of uses of figurative language from “The Caged Bird” help support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression?

If another stanza were added to “The Caged Bird,” which excerpt could best be used to continue the extended metaphor?

Read the passage from "The Caged Bird.”But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreamshis shadow shouts on a nightmare screamhis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso 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,

Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreamshis shadow shouts on a nightmare screamhis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.

Read the excerpt from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sit and Look Out” that Clara is using in her analysis of “The Caged Bird.”I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret convulsive sobs . . .

acceptancejealousypeacefulnessdesperation

attitudeconnotationextended metaphorfigurative meaning

When searching for the connotations of the words in “The Caged Bird,” the reader should study

How do metaphors and extended metaphors differ?