Maya Angelou and Figurative Language
The late Maya Angelou was poetic even in her prose. Use two quotes from her books to learn how to use figurative language to describe emotions.
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Maya Angelou and the Smile
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS When Maya Angelou, author of the moving autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was eleven years old, she was reunited with her birth mother, whom she hadn’t seen in eight years. Young Maya was unhappy. . After two weeks, her mother still had not seen her smile. Here’s the exchange…
