What does the author say in this passage that indicates his purpose is to motivate readers?

Besides the skull and cross bones what other shape sometimes appeared on flags flown by pirates?

If you were making a persuasive speech about how students should take creative writing every year they are in school, which sentence would most effectively support that argument?

Which pair of uses of figurative language from “the caged bird” support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression? back of the wind; floats downstream his wings are clipped; his feet are tied the caged bird sings; the free bird thinks dawn bright lawn; grave of dreams