Question

ead this excerpt from Chapter 1 of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and answer the question. When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed – ‘To Whom It May Concern’ – that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr. … Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for ‘the poor little motherless darlings’ and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad. In the above excerpt, Angelou uses her diction to portray the children as _____. a simile for luggage a metaphor for luggage an exaggeration of the facts an allusion to The Runaway Train

Answer 1

The correct answer is "A metaphor for luggage".

In this excerpt from "I know Why The Cage Bird Sings", written by Maya Angelou, she's using specific language that implicates an allusion to the children being private property. The tags on their wrists which read "to whom it may concern" is particularly striking, as it's the type of thing you'd find attached to luggage, and we're talking about human beings.

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