Why did Marguerite finally speak?

When she later heard the news that an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man. She fell silent and did not speak for five years. Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their mother in San Francisco. ... 1970: Maya Angelou walks on the beach in San Francisco.

i think the answer is invented words, rhyming knack, alliteration, and, metaphor.

answer: they were written as a long tale

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