What effect does the poet achieve by repeating the phrase, "We wear the mask throughout the poem? Complete the sentences to answer the

question.

In the poem "We Wear the Mask," Paul Laurence Dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward American society. He repeats

the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that

1. The first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. In the

second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. However, at the end of the poem, Dunbar almost shouts

the phrase deflantly. The mask seems to become something he wears proudly. Through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, Dunbar

could be implying that

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly