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In one poem, this animal’s sound is described “as a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings.” In a work titled for these animals, the protagonist takes on the job of a streetcar worker in San Francisco. (15[2])The poem “Sympathy” (15[1])by Paul (15[1])Laurence (15[1])Dunbar inspired a book (15[1])titled for one of these animals in which he narrator learns to speak again by Bertha Flowers after she is raped by her mother’s boyfriend (*) Mr. Freeman. That memoir titled for one of these animals recount’s its author's childhood in Stamps, (10[1])Arkansas. For 10 points, Maya Angelou (10[1])proclaims (10[1])in the title of her autobiography that she “knows why” what “caged” animal sings? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: caged bird [accept descriptive answers; accept I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings;]
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