Ead this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the question. when i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed – ‘to whom it may concern’ – that we were marguerite and bailey johnson jr. … negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for ‘the poor little motherless darlings’ and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad. in the above excerpt, angelou uses her diction to portray the children as a simile for luggage a metaphor for luggage an exaggeration of the facts an allusion to the runaway train

The correct answer is "A metaphor for luggage".

In this excerpt from "I know Why The Cage Bird Sings", written by Maya Angelou, she's using specific language that implicates an allusion to the children being private property. The tags on their wrists which read "to whom it may concern" is particularly striking, as it's the type of thing you'd find attached to luggage, and we're talking about human beings.

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read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

the words "strangest" and "unusual" suggest (: