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An author’s word choice contributes to the tone of the poem because the choice of words shed light to the emotion in the poem along with helping push the reader to understand the theme and story behind the poem. For example when the author said “we sat huddled in our prison jackets” this could show that the boys were cold and tired to warm each other up with their body heat. Another meaning could be that them huddling together is a way to symbolize a bond or closeness between all of them.

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Cloudy Day is a poem about the experience of being imprisoned, where the cloudy sky symbolizes a sense of confinement and bleakness, but also hints at the possibility of hope and a brighter day even amidst difficult circumstances. the poem explores themes of resilience and finding light even in darknes

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Jayla Small

In a “Cloudy Day”by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the authors word choice reflects his view of life as difficult yet full of resilience. He uses strong, descriptive language to create a somber and reflective tone, emphasizing struggle and hardship. Words that depict harsh conditions or emotional pain suggest that life is full of obstacles, but his choice of language also hints at perseverance and strength. Through his diction, Baca shows that while life can be tough, there is always the ability to endure and push forward, revealing his perspective that challenges shape and strengthen a person.

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Angel Alexander

The author’s word choice in “Cloudy Day” reveal his point of view about life in the poem by using emotion when he spoke about how he was still strong enough to love himself and others even though he isn’t surrounded by love. He also talks about how cruel prison can be but he still feels like he has everything.

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In "Cloudy Day", by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author's use offigurative language helps create a tone of sadness and reflection. For example, when Baca describes the sky as "cloudy," he isn't just talking about the weather, he's using the Words like "prison yard,""freedom," and "cloudy day" embodies confinement with moments of solace and hope. His choice of language evokes a sense of contemplation, ultimately emphasizing strength and perseverance despite adversity.This figurative language makes the tone more serious and gives readers a sense of the speaker's emotional state. Also making them feel the weight of his feelings and emotions.

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Joseph Justice, Shun Hill 4A

I Believe the author’s figurative language contribute to the tone because In Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Cloudy Day," the author's figurative language, particularly personification and metaphors, create a tone of for freedom, confinement and a sense of desperation, highlighting the speaker's experience of being imprisoned by using the natural elements like wind and clouds as symbols of the outside world they are restricted from accessing. Baca explains to the reader that despite the hardships and challenges in the earlier part of his life, he has come out more stronger and committed.

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Jayla Mims

Figurative language plays a crucial role in enhancing the theme of the poem "Cloudy Days." The author uses metaphors and similes to draw vivid comparisons between the cloudy days and the emotional state of the speaker. For instance, describing the clouds as "a gray blanket covering the sky" suggests a sense of heaviness and oppression, mirroring the speaker's feelings of sadness or despair. Similarly, the use of personification, such as "the clouds weep softly," gives human emotions to the weather, further emphasizing the connection between the external environment and the speaker's internal experience. These figurative elements speaks on the reader's understanding of the theme by illustrating how the speaker's mood is affected by and reflected in the dreary weather, creating a powerful story

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Cameron Holsey 4A

In "Cloudy Day" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author's word choice contributes to a reflective and resilient tone. Baca uses vivid imagery and strong, emotive language to convey themes of hardship and freedom. Words like "prison yard," "freedom," and "cloudy day'' embodies confinement with moments of solace and hope. His choice of language evokes a sense of contemplation, ultimately emphasizing strength and perseverance despite adversity.

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Lyric Ivey 3A

In “Cloudy Day”, by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author's use of figurative language helps create a tone of sadness and reflection. For example, when Baca describes the sky as "cloudy," he isn't just talking about the weather, he's using the clouds as a symbol for emotional heaviness and struggle. The clouds reflect the speaker's struggle and feelings of being weighed down. This figurative language makes the tone more serious and gives readers a sense of the speaker’s emotional state. Also making them feel the weight of his thoughts, feelings and emotions.

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Alyssa Cobb 3A

In the story of Cloudy day, the authors' word choice emphasizes the message that the author wants to convey. First example, “the wind carried our words over the fences, while the vigilant guard on the tower held his cap at the sudden gust.”, the prisoners want their voices to be heard outside of the prison towards the citizens. Their passion of voice becomes a strong burst of wind, which the attentive guard was taken aback by it but still remained composed. And then secondly, “the wind in my face gave me the feeling I could grasp the tower like a cornstalk, and snap it from its roots of rock. The wind plays it like a flute, this hollow shoot of rock.”, compared when the author was first placed in prison, he was in disbelief but the wind symbolizes hope for him and guides him to love himself, become stronger, and a good person despite being trapped in prison. Being in prison, changes his perception of life by writing this poem he wants to share this with the readers. Lastly, “I have not a thing to my name, I feel as if I have everything, everything.”. Forced to be stripped down to nothing and everything is gloomy around you, you can always find a light in the clouds even if it's a small light.

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Lamiyah Galloway 3A

In "Cloudy Day," the words themselves feel like a character, whispering Baca's perspective on life's ups and downs. It's not just a description of a cloudy day; it's a feeling, a mood, almost a person. The way he paints the clouds – sometimes heavy, oppressive, like a weight on the soul – shows us how life can feel burdensome. But it's not all gloom. He slips in little sparks of light, little moments of beauty, reminding us that even in the greyest of times, there's still hope to be found.

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I’keria Reynolds 3a

The authors word choice reveals the main characters point of view about his life by exposing his raw emotions. The character reflects on his life ,While being imprisoned he has had a realization that even though he is in prison he sees a difference within himself from when he got arrested to him being in prison. His thoughts has allowed him to have more appreciation and gratitude for himself. When being imprisoned the outcomes don’t really come out good. Many others can say that it causes depression, anger or even guilt but the main character has had a different emotion and aspect of being in prison so this passage emphasizes the characters point of view on his life. Not only does he have realization but he starts to have disbelief about him being imprisoned and this shows that he is trying to become a better person than the person he was when he was getting arrested.

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The author’s word choices gives a blue feeling of prison, he uses words like “ankles chained”     & “frightened cat” which shows the pain & fear prison gives you. His pov on prison is a real dark view, it shows that he feels like a caged animal or a piece of property & this stanza shows this  “In the exercise yard we sat huddled in our prison jackets, on our haunches against the fence, and the wind carried our words over the fences, while the vigilant guard on the tower held his cap at the sudden gust.” . The guard with the gun shows the power the prison gives the guards, making inmates in a vulnerable state at all times. It adds on to the dark tone of the poem; it shows how his mind makes him feel like a slave although he is just an inmate.

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Kevon H 2A

The story '' Cloudy Day'' the author's word choice shows use and telling us how he sees life as one of hardships and struggles. He uses words like ''freedom'' and ''wounds''. Also the author shows that he feeling sadness and sorrow.

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Valencia Watts, Mackenzie Mosley, and Brandon Pace 2A

I think the authors word choice contributes to the tone of the text because his words give it a very conceptual and visual feel to the story. You can understand how the author feels throughout the text and his thoughts about things going on around him. Him being in prison really changed his view and that choice of words he used adds to the tone and gives that great description because you can truly feel what he felt at that time. The tone is very subtle at the beginning by the end though it shines through. His emotions are fully out and how he felt during his time there is descriptively stated. The author uses words like endure, cruel, and cold to describe how he felt about the things going on around him. The author uses many different forms of figurative language to highlight the overall meaning and experience of his particular point of view. The emotional words used help convey the authors throughout the entire text setting the emotional tone and highlighting it furthermore as the story progresses.

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Vanessa Melanie Aguiar, Ashala jackson 2A

“Cloudy Days “ by Jimmy Barca uses figurative language about the tough times he went through in prison he uses Metaphor , simile , personification , and imagery. One example that he use from the poem is “ Sometimes it is such a dream , a dream where I stand up in the face of the wind , like now , it blows at my jacket, and my eyelids flick a little bit , while I stand disbelieving “. This sentence shows that the speaker is standing strong against challenges and the tone is showing determination

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How does the author's word choice reveal his point of view about life in the poem?

In "Cloud Day" the author's word choice shows his opinion about his life. He uses words that are aligned with a feeling of sadness, melancholy, and sorrow. However, the author shows a feeling of "overcoming" seeing as he shows how despite his struggles, he can still come up better.

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The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tone by creating a sense of disbelief when he uses repetition. In line 21 the author states, “Sometimes it is such a dream, a dream, where I stand up in the face of the wind," The speaker is trying to say that he cant believe what is happening by repeating “dream”.

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In the story Cloudy day The use of strong verbs like "crashes," "clunks," "seethes," and "grasp" contributes to the poem's dynamic and powerful tone. These words, combined with the vivid imagery, create a sense of urgency and intensity, reflecting the speaker's emotional state and the oppressive atmosphere of the prison. In short, Baca's skillful use of figurative language powerfully conveys the emotional weight of imprisonment and a yearning for something beyond the walls.

Katherine Robison, Josiah McNair , Kishayla reed

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Derrica Jackson

In the story “Cloudy Day” the author’s word choice reveals to us his pov about life in the poem by telling us how he sees life as one of hardships, struggles and hope. The author uses words like “freedom” and “wounds” which tells us that he sees life as difficult but he still belives in the possibility of change and hope.

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Lyniah Brown

The story “Cloudy Day” by Jimmy Baca resembles a sense of guilt and sorrow presenting in the tone of language the story uses. In Paragraph two, it says “In the exercise yard

we sat huddled in our prison jackets,

on our haunches against the fence,

and the wind carried our words

over the fences,

while the vigilant guard on the tower

held his cap at the sudden gust.” In this case, it shows a feeling of depression being presented through the charachter, and the gloomy atmosphere of their backs haunchly sitting on a metal barbed wire gate with prison clothes on. The author proves that the situation of being in jail is infact not a good feeling, and that it would only bring you to a loss of words, or feeling detatched. The story also says in paragraph five that : “I thought of the day I was coming to prison,

in the back seat of a police car,

hands and ankles chained, the policeman pointed,

“See that big water tank? The big

silver one out there, sticking up?

That’s the prison.” which the author gives us a detailed POV of a what a dreaded feeling would be if he were to ever go to jail. This helps the reader understand that not only will jail put you inside of a place where only wind swings past broken glass and where barber wire fences are, but it also gives us a reason to try not to have things to your name, and more so stay out of trouble, otherwise you will experience the same sorrow and regret as the character feels throughout the story. The character most importantly potrays the relatable life events that you can feel, rather if it is physically or emotionally, which is why in paragraph three it says “I could see the main tower from where I sat,

and the wind in my face

gave me the feeling I could grasp

the tower like a cornstalk,

and snap it from its roots of rock.” which shows how angry the character was about being locked outside a place of freedom, and kept inside of place of grief.

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In "Cloudy Day" by Jimmy, the author's figurative language, particularly metaphors and similes, creates a thoughtful tone, allowing the reader to feel a sense of calm and quiet reflection on the overcast sky, often associating it with personal thoughtfulness and a sense of thought.

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Mia Zarate 4A

POV: In “Cloudy Day” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, his word choice reveals his view of life as challenging. He uses harsh, prison related imagery to show what he went through in there. However, his descriptions of the sky and nature suggest hope and freedom. Ex: “I could see the main tower from where I sat, and the wind in my face gave me the feeling I could grasp the tower like a cornstalk, and snap it from its roots of rock.” His choice of words reflects a belief in resilience/ transformation despite everything he’s been through. The contrast between endurance and coldness/cruelty show that pain can lead to personal growth and can change you as a person. Ex: “and four years later, I can tell you, how a man can endure, how a man can become so cruel, how he can die or become so cold.” Through his language, he expresses that life is difficult but offers moments of strength and transformation to get through all of it.

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In Cloudy Day, the speaker uses figurative language to show how he feels about prison.

He uses similes that compare his feelings to the dark, heavy sky.

This makes his situation seem difficult and unchanging. The barbed wire wall photo in the poem let us see the hard work and pain the prisoners endure.

Through that simple picture, we understand his view that even in a dark place, there is a small light of hope.

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The author words of choice reveal his point of view about life is using simile and symbolism. The author uses simile by stay in the clouds can be symbolized obstacles or challenges in life that he has faced. In the text the cloudy day "A wall of wind crashes against,windows clunk against, iron frames as wind swings past broken glass and seethes". The author uses symbolism in the text why seeing the changes in growth that he has made through why he was in jail. “See that big water tank? The big, silver one out there, sticking up? That’s the prison.” Overall the author uses figurative language to inspire and encourage readers to make positive changes in their lives and to strive towards self-improvement.

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A cloudy day by Jimmy Santiago Baca Express what a cloudy day feels like or what the environment is like when it's a cloudy day. Also it shows feelings of love and how you have to feel strong and love yourself for who you are.

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Aaliyah Y

The authors word choice revealed his point of view by using flashbacks to give us insight on his experience upon arriving to the prison. The author also uses point of view to show how his prison experiences didn’t sway his heart and he can still love the same and feel as good.

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The figurative language contributes to the tone poem by using metaphor(s) such as “ i could grasp the tower like a cornstalk, and snap it from its

roots of rock.” The tone of the poem is optimistic and hopefulness. Highlighting how him going to prison, was a very difficult obstacle in his life, but he was still able to preserve through and find himself. “ i am still strong enough to love you. love myself, and feel good”. All in all, figurative language progressed the time of the story helping for m the tone optimistic and hope fullness.

Nikita A., Emmanuel D., Savannah Bufford

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In "Cloudy Day" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author's word choice plays a significant role in establishing the poem's tone. Baca uses specific words and vivid imagery that create a feeling of sadness and reflection. For instance, the way he describes the cloudy sky paints a clear picture in our minds, making us feel the heaviness of the day, which mirrors the speaker's emotions. This gloomy imagery helps readers understand what the speaker is going through. Additionally, Baca selects emotionally charged language that carries strong feelings, allowing readers to connect with the speaker’s struggles and feelings of longing. When we encounter these powerful words, we can almost feel what the speaker is experiencing. Furthermore, Baca often contrasts dark images with hints of light or hope, creating a complex tone that reflects both sadness and strength. Even when things seem tough, there might be a glimmer of hope suggesting that the speaker can overcome their challenges. Lastly, some words in the poem symbolize bigger ideas like struggle and hope, adding deeper meaning and prompting readers to think more about the speaker's experiences. Overall, Baca's careful word choices shape the emotional vibe of "Cloudy Day," inviting us to dive into the speaker's thoughts and feelings and making the tone resonate strongly throughout the poem.

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CATHERINE LOPEZ,

WENDY ELIAS,

NATALIE APARICIO

The authors word choice reveal his point of view about life in the poem by using figurative language. He describes his emotions by using personification for example he compared the way the wind moves like a cat “as wind swings past broken glass and seethes, like a frightened cat”. He also changes his feelings throughout the story, at first he describes a sad mood from when he was first locked up to showing a bit of hope and shows and tells the reader that he adapted to how his life was now in jail. He compares his past and present by looking at his old difficult experiences and compares them to where he is now. This helps the reader and him understand that painful moment being wisdom and strength.

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In cloudy day by jimmy baca, the figurative language plays a crucial role in establishing the poems tone, which shifts from despair to resilience. Baca uses imagery, metaphors, and personification to depict the harshness of prison life and the speakers emotional journey.

Joelease Brooks And Charnya Floyd

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Quavon Mitchell

The author uses figurative language to show how he was in prison. He does this by explaining how the prison felt to live in. He uses the setting of a windy cloudy day to set the mood that it is a negative environment. He uses words like cruel and cold to set the mood.

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In Cloudy Day, Jimmy Santiago Baca uses vivid word choices to reveal a reflective and finally hopeful point of life view. The language of the poem captures hardship and transformation, symbolized by imagery drawn from nature. Words like "gray" and "moaning wind" evoke a sense of bleakness, reflecting the speaker's struggles, including the confinement of prison. However, Baca's diction slowly shifts, and words like "surrender" and "freedom" suggest a release from past pain. This shift shows that the speaker accepts life's hardships and is thankful for growth. Saying, "I love this place where I am," Baca underlines a view that life, though filled with hardship, offers profound beauty and renewal through resilience. The word choices effectively take the audience on a tour from pain to peace, unfolding a reflective optimistic view of life.

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The figurative language in cloudy day by Jimmy Santiago Baca, figurative language plays a crucial role in establishing the poems tone, which shifts from despair to resilience. Baca uses imagery, metaphors, and personification to depict the harshness of prison life and the speakers emotional journey.

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Alexis Burley 3B - The author's figurative language contribute to the tone of the poem Cloudy day By Jimmy Baca by creating a vivid image to the readers and also making the readers feel a the emotions as the text continues. The gloomy tone the author uses in the text overall shapes the text. The author uses a uses the metaphors such as “clouds and rains” to convey a kind of somber emotion. Suggesting some kind of emotional scale of the poem. Showing deeper emotions , thoughts and meaning the author is trying to portray.

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Alejandro Cortes

the author's use of figurative language plays a role in this poem by showing how he felt in prison. He uses metaphor and imagery where he describes how it feels to be in prison and we image how the winds blows throughout day. The tone of the poem was gloomy and turns into a hope feeling when he says “I have not a thing to my name, I feel as if I have everything everything.” Where from the beginning of the poem he say “we sat huddled in our prison jacket, on our haunches against the fence.” Giving a cold feeling to start on how prison feels. This is why I believe the figurative language played a huge role in determining the tone of the story.

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Tanaya Eberhart

In the poem, the author’s word choice reflects a view of life shaped by both struggle and strength. Words like “crashes,” and “clunks,” and “seethes” c onvey a sense of harshness,of harshness, suggesting that life can often feel overwhelming and chaotic, much like the violent wind. However, the simile “like a frightened cat” softens this intensity, indicating that even the most powerful forces can be fragile or fearful. The speaker’s personal reflections, such as when he describes how he “thought of the day I was coming to prison,” reveal how past experiences shape his understanding of the present.The author’s word choice, blending struggle with moments of personal empowerment, reveals a perspective on life that recognizes hardship but also celebrates hope.

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Overall Baca’s deliberate word choices enhance the emotional depth of the poem, allowing the reader to feel both the weight of imprisonment and the fleeting yet profound sense of freedom found in the rain.The phrase "barbed wire strung through our souls" metaphorically conveys deep emotional and psychological pain, making the suffering feel more intense and personal this adds to the somber tone of the poem highlighting the dehumanizing experience of incarceration.Phrases like "we laughed like children" and "sun bursting through" contrast with the earlier bleak descriptions, showing that despite life’s struggles, moments of peace and happiness are still possible. This reflects Baca’s viewpoint that while suffering is an undeniable part of life, resilience and connection can help people endure and find meaning.

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Elizabeth and Iva

The author word choice contributed to the tone of the poem by him using simile. One of the simile’s that was found was in Stanza 1, “iron frames as wind swings past broken glass and seethes, like a frightened cat.” These lines in the poem compares the wind and the frightened cat.

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Ca’Mora Young

The author’s word choice contributes to the tone of poem by the way he describes how his expressions are changing through the poem . In the 1st bar he expresses that’s he was frightened like a cat . The 3rd bar he explained how he was angry and used the expression “ gave me the feeling i could grasp tower like a cornstalk . “ The 6th bar explained that he didn’t feel that he fit in .

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The author uses figurative language to convey an out of place or sad feeling. In the text the author uses similes like “wind swings past broken glass”, and “wind carried out words”. The author uses similes to explain how the prison feels out of place for him.

Adrain Allen

Paris Morgan

Kailee Russ

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The author’s figurative language contributes to the poem’s with resilience and contemplation by using personification and metaphors to reflect on the harshness of imprisonment. The wind is personified as “crashing against windows,” “seething like a frightened cat,” and “playing the tower like a flute,” making it feel alive and symbolic of both chaos and defiance. This creates a contrast between the speaker’s imprisonment and the uncontrollable force of nature, hinting at a longing for freedom. Metaphors, such as the speaker imagining grasping the tower “like a cornstalk” and snapping it from its roots, convey a desire for control and power despite imprisonment. The imagery of the “hollow shoot of rock” and the watchful guard emphasizes the isolation and harshness of prison life.

Bintou Touray, Jhayme fonseca

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In "Cloudy Day" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author uses figurative language to create a tone that is sad and thoughtful. Through metaphors, imagery, and personification, Baca shows how the speaker feels inside.

For example, the metaphor of a "cloudy day" stands for confusion, sadness, and feeling weighed down, which gives the poem a gloomy and heavy feeling right from the start. The use of nature, like clouds or weather, often matches the speaker's emotions, making the mood even more intense and reflective.

Baca uses creative language in the poem to make the emotions stronger, creating a tone of personal thought and sadness. This also helps readers connect with and understand the speaker's feelings.

Ayanna, Bena, Ke’Asia

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Miles Hendrix & Chris Flores

The author’s word choice throughout the story conveys an emotion of gloom and disbelief as he still struggles to grasp the fact that he’s in prison. Lines like “And here I am, I cannot believe it. Sometimes it is such a dream, a dream where I stand up in the wind , and it blows at my jacket, and my eyelids flick a little bit, while I stare in disbelieving” show that the author is still grasping the fact that he’s in prison, he uses word play throughout the story to show how life is within the prison and how it’s affected him. He says things like “the wind carried our words over the fences”. This kind of statement implies that even though they can’t physically get out their words still make it over.

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Tremayne Evans and Jakari Rouseau

In Cloudy Days by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the authors word choice contributes significantly to the poems tone, which is reflective, melancholic, and yet ultimately resilient. Baca uses vivid imagery and carefully selected wording to evoke a sense of struggle and hardship, particularly in the way he describes the clouds and the emotional weight they carry. Words like gray, empty, and cold. reinforce a somber and bleak mood, mirroring the speakers internal struggles. However as the poem progresses, Bacas choice of words also suggests perseverance and hope. The language shifts subtly to reflect endurance, emphasizing that even in difficult times, there is strength in moving forward. This significant word choice helps establish a tone that is not just sorrowful but also deeply introspective and ultimately uplifting.

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his choice of words creates a sense of heaviness and emotional burden, which shows the struggles of life. The cloudy imagery gives a feeling of sadness and uncertainty. The words highlight the feeling of clarity and hope, contributing to a tone that emphasizes the challenges of life. The use of these words suggests that the speaker sees life as often uncertain and difficult, overshadowed by doubt and personal struggles.

Siri Watkins, Charma Jackson, Keionya Edwards

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How does the author's word choice reveal his point of view about life in the poem?The author’s word choice in the poem reveals a meaning and reflective point of view about life, particularly life within the confines of a prison. Overall, the author’s word choice paints a picture of life in prison as harsh and confining but also highlights the human capacity for endurance, reflection, and love even in difficult circumstances.

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Kentavious Howard , Delonta Slade

In Cloudy Day, the speaker uses figurative language to show how he feels about prison. He uses similes that compare his feelings to the dark, heavy sky. This makes his situation seem difficult and unchanging. The barbed wire wall photo in the poem let us see the hard work and pain the prisoners endure. Through that simple picture, we understand his view that even in a dark place, there is a small light of hope.

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Nelly Tellez and Elijah Ghant

The author's choice of words reveal his point of view about life in the poem with his experience in prison. Showing as he has nothing and out of prison, he is grateful and joyful for everything. As he is finally out of prison, a experience he will reflect back on and will never forget. In lines 36-40, "The third day of spring, and four years later, I can tell you, how a man can endure, how a man can become so cruel, how he can die or become so cold." Showing what he experienced in prison can not compare how he feels as he is now a free man.

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The authors word choice contributes to the poem by using very descriptive emotional words to convey the authors mood. For example, When the author is describing how to the wind feels by saying “and the wind in my face gave me a feeling I could grasp.” show the authors awareness of his freedom. The author then goes on to describe the gravity of his emotions by saying “how a man can endure, how a man can become so cruel, how he can die or become so cold. I can tell you this, I have seen it every day, every day, and still I am strong enough to love you, love myself and feel good;

even as the earth shakes and trembles, and I have not a thing to my name, I feel as if I have everything, everything.” Showing that while the author was just released from prison,his sense of freedom is all he needs to feel whole.

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Step 3: Written response

Work together to craft a paragraph that addresses the one of the writing
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