WILL GIVE A LOT OF POINTS AND SUCH, DESPERATE!!

Question 7 (3 points)
The highlighted lines in the poem emphasize which two literary devices, and depict the type of environment that exists outside of the cage.

Sympathy
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting—
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
Question 7 options:

Hyperbole

Simile

Imagery

Onomatopoeia

Question 8 (3 points)
Choose the stanza in the poem that expresses the author's idea that African Americans should keep their feelings about their past tragedies hidden, so as not to give their oppressors the satisfaction of knowing how deep their scars from past injustices actually run.

We Wear the Mask

STANZA ONE:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

STANZA TWO
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

STANZA THREE
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
Question 8 options:

Stanza One

Stanza Two

Stanza Three