1. paul laurence dunbar’s “we wear the mask” and “sympathy” are poems that resound with suffering. what causes the pain of the people who wear the mask and the repeated injuries of the caged bird? why do the people and the bird not change their situations? to whom do the sufferers appeal in their pain, and why? use the poems to support your response

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Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Is expression of words or ideas opposed to what is literally meant or expected called.