Answer this question in 150-200 words: Compare the form and theme of these two closely related poems: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Sympathy.” What does Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" contribute to Dunbar's metaphor in "Sympathy"? What's the effect of her addition of the free bird? How do the two poems compare in terms of formal structures? How else does she make a different comment on freedom and the African American struggle to achieve it? What evidence, if any, do you find that about 70 years passed between the compositions of the two poems? That is, in what ways does Angelou update Dunbar's poem to account for changes that occurred in that struggle?

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

The point of view in the novel can best be described as third-person omniscient third-person limited second-person first-person