Caged Bird Literary Elements
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Illustrate different literary elements in Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird" like metaphor, personification, and alliteration
Süžeeskeem Tekst
- METAPHOR
- PERSONIFICATION
- REPETITION
- A metaphor is when something is symbolic of something else. The whole poem is a metaphor: the free bird represents white people, and the caged bird represents repressed African Americans.
- Personification is when human qualities and actions are given to non-humans. An example of this is the line, "and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees." It's as if the trees are sighing in sorrow.
- Repetition is when the poet uses the same word or group of words many times. One example of this is, "And his tune is heard on a distant the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."
- "Caged Bird" Literary Elements
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