Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.” The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own. Which additional line best matches the tone of the stanza?

The stanza has a peaceful, gentle tone, with images such as a soft breeze, sighing trees, and a bright lawn. “He drifts among the cottony clouds” continues that calm, airy feeling. The other choices use harsher or more forceful images, such as sorrow, thundering, or charging.

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