Warm-Up: Number your half sheet Warm-Up: Number your half sheet. Write down the 2 things that are being compared and label the type of figurative language. Every time you come around shut it down like computers hey lady, step into my hear This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the same First we're both down to play then somehow you go astray I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier

Example Paragraph Writing Response Paul Dunbar uses metaphors to compare himself to a caged bird, which symbolizes lacking freedom. For example, the first stanza describes a beautiful sunny day with “faint perfume” in the air; however, the bird is stuck in a cage. The second stanza conveys the pain the bird is in because it consistently beats against the cage. The last stanza reveals how the bird prays and begs to be free one day. In summary, the caged bird represents Dunbar’s lack of freedom as a Black man in America during the early 1900s.