Read the excerpt from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sit and Look Out” that Clara is using in her analysis of “The Caged Bird.” I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret convulsive sobs . . . Clara chose this excerpt to help support her interpretation of “The Caged Bird” because it has an extended metaphor that examines secrecy. sacrifice. shame. suffering.

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"

Both wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea and spiegelman’s maus relate events of the holocaust from a jewish survivor’s perspective. using the third-person point of view. by retelling the experiences of friends. through the eyes of their fathers.

Swift’s satire that tells of three brothers’ coats is