Which features of this writing make it poetry? 1. It has a story with a valuable lesson, 2. It begins rather sadly, and ends happily. 3. It means the same thing to every reader. 4. It has lines with rhyme and similar length.

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 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 defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Who is ¨ the guilty party¨ at the end of the text, and how do his actions contribute to the storys theme?

What does stanton accuse men of in this excerpt from the declaration of sentiments