depression, life was an on going struggle for all. In the South, it seemed

that African Americans suffered the greatest. When the novel “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is read, a door is opened to a world that most try to forget. Maya Angelou is able to describe her experiences growing up in the south in such a vivid way through her use of literary techniques such as ____, ____, and ____. Her exquistite techniques allows the reader to experience the events of Maya’s life right along side of her.

Maya Angelou uses an aphoristic style similar to that of Ralph

Waldo Emerson’s. This style is g

intentionally implies that she wasn’t any sort of exception, but that

never amount to anything, because of the limitation's society has set for

as a boast of sorts, “Look how far blacks have come; look at what they have accomplished, and they haven’t even begun to put up a fight. Just imagine what they are capable of doing.” When Maya describes the speech given at

reatly used to express the tensions that occur within the south. She writes concisely about life’s little secrets. By

often speaks to the audience formally, but none of the characters can

to become athletes, Maya is angered, but is smart enough to know that

Maya also uses many asides throughout the novel, meaning she

them. Conflicts between the Ku Klux Klan and blacks occured more oft

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