Look at the first stanza. what literary device is this song using to the audience connect to the theme?

a modern day warrior
mean, mean stride
today's tom sawyer
mean, mean pride

a) allusion

b) personification

c) rhyming

d) irony

Imagine you are reading a story about a character named dray. dray is captain of the basketball team and practices for hours after school in order to achieve his goals of playing in the nba. one day, dray decides that he hates basketball. he quits the team and takes up knitting instead. what is the introduction of this new plot point is an example of a. an anticlimaxb. a conclusionc. a contrivanced. a climax

Choose the types of characters an author may choose to create

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