Read the passage from i know why the caged bird sings.
in those tender mornings the store was full of laughing, joking, boasting and
bragging. one man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another
three hundred. even the children were promising to bring home fo' bits and six bits.
the champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. if he
prophesied that the cotton in today's field was going to be sparse and stick to the
bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a hearty agreement.
the sound of the empty cotton sacks dragging over the floor and the murmurs of
waking people were sliced by the cash register as we rang up the five-cent sales.
if the morning sounds and smells were touched with the supernatural, the late
afternoon had all the features of the normal arkansas life. in the dying sunlight the
people dragged, rather than their empty cotton sacks.
brought back to the store, the pickers would step out of the backs of trucks and
fold down, dirt-disappointed, to the ground. no matter how much they had picked, it
wasn't enough. their wages wouldn't even get them out of debt to my grandmother.
not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary

write one full paragraph that identifies the alliteration in this passage. then explain
why may angelou uses alliteration. what is the effect?

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explanation:

mrs. mallard has a heart condition, which means that if she's startled she could die. so, when news comes that her husband's been killed in an accident, the people who tell her have to cushion the blow.

mrs. mallard's sister josephine sits down with her and dances around the truth until mrs. mallard finally understands what happened. the deceased mr. mallard's friend, richards, hangs out with them for moral support.

richards originally found out because he had been in the newspaper headquarters when a report of the accident that killed mr. mallard, which happened on a train, came through. richards waited for proof from a second source before going to the mallards' to share the news.

when mrs. mallard finds out what happened she acts differently from most women in the same position, who might disbelieve it. she cries passionately before deciding to go to her room to be by herself.

in her room, mrs. mallard sits down on a comfy chair and feels completely depleted. she looks out the window and looks out at a world that seems alive and fresh. she can see the sky coming between the rain clouds.

mrs. mallard sits still, occasionally crying briefly like a kid might.

the narrator describes her as youthful and pretty, but because of this news she looks preoccupied and absent.

she seems to be holding out for some kind of unknown news or knowledge, which she can tell is approaching.

mrs. mallard breathes heavily and tries to resist before succumbing to this unknown thing, which is a feeling of freedom.

acknowledging freedom makes her revive, and she doesn't consider whether she should feel bad about it.

mrs. mallard thinks to herself about how she'll cry when she sees her husband's dead body and how much he loved her. even so, she's kind of excited about the chance to make her own decisions and not feel accountable to anyone.

mrs. mallard feels even more swept up by the idea of freedom than the fact that she had felt love for her husband.

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how the sound devices the reader interpret with the poet's feelings