Compartive essay quotes

Question 1

lead in quote

Answer 1

“All men are created equally”. This quote from the United States Declaration of Independence is a very well known reference for the nation’s founding principles of liberty and freedom. However

Question 2

TLM quote PARA 1

Answer 2

“The whip ate into him, but like all gluttons who have gorged themselves to their fill it bit and chewed without swallowing … until its mouth was so full food seeped out its corners.”
- personification
- imagery

Question 3

TCBS quote PARA 1

Answer 3

“His wings are clipped and his feet are tied” anthropomorphism, extended metaphor, connotations of entrapped and restricted, bird was already caged, the clipping is cruel.

Question 4

TLM quote PARA 2

Answer 4

“My mother is an angel without wings, Fallen from grace, the sun has smoked her skin … though black her soul is white”
- metaphor
-imagery

Question 5

TCBS quote PARA 2

Answer 5

“But a bird that stalks down his cage can seldom see through his bars of rage”
-rhyme
- metaphor
further linking the cage to being the source of the rage, the cage is symbolic of the psychological imprisonment and loss of self.

Question 6

TLM PARA 3
2 quotes

Answer 6

“I had no name. I was just boy, mule, nigger, slave or whatever anyone else chose to call me”
- diction/ connotations
- asyndeton = sense of of abruptness and harshness which mathces the connotations of those words.

“cattle need fattening, not slaves”
-juxtaposition
little intrinsic value resulting in slaves being physically abused as they are considered less than

Question 7

TCBS quote PARA 3
1 quote and one discussion/ topic

Answer 7

also discuss

“stands on the grave of his own dead dreams”
- personification of the dreams
- imagery

Juxtaposition of the free bird and the caged bird