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Word Choice and Extended Metaphor in a Poem by Maya Angelou Answers

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What is the context of the passage?

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Selection 1:what makes the narrator happy or sad
What is being compared in the metaphor?:“you” and “sunshine”
What is the meaning of the metaphor?:You make me happy.
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What is the denotation of the word floats?

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Selection 1:to rest on a liquid surface
Selection 2:to move in a relaxed way
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to wander without directionto rest on a liquid surface✔ to move in a relaxed way

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to wander without direction
B
to rest on a liquid surface
C
✔ to move in a relaxed way
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Read the stanza. What is the figurative meaning of the phrase “floats downstream”?

A
has no worries
B
likes many things
C
needs few people
D
glides with the water
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What is the context of the passage?

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Selection 1:what makes the narrator happy or sad
What is being compared in the metaphor?:“you” and “sunshine”
What is the meaning of the metaphor?:You make me happy.
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“you” and “my”✔ “you” and “sunshine”X “sunshine” and “life”

A
“you” and “my”
B
✔ “you” and “sunshine”
C
X “sunshine” and “life”
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You are like the sky.X Life is full of sunlight.✔ You make me happy.

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You are like the sky.
B
X Life is full of sunlight.
C
✔ You make me happy.
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How does the poet develop the extended metaphor of the caged bird in the last two lines?

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by describing how the bird is tied and bound
B
by arguing that caged birds have some freedoms
C
by describing the one act of freedom a caged bird has

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