"How often are we given this message" what is the author referring to?

Systemic oppression, racism, and the constant erasure experienced by BIPOC

The breaks in the passage are used by the author to?

Emphasize the metophorical significance of the brontosaurus' existence

How can symbolism make a poem better?

It gives a new or more significant meaning

Which is a metaphor used in the poem

As this dinosaur joins Pluto, drifting off into the purgatory of things

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"How often are we given this message" what is the author referring to?
Someone having the wrong head on their shoulders
Systemic oppression, racism, and the constant erasure experienced by BIPOC
The way people are treated in the world
The message of love and family in Land Before Times
2
The breaks in the passage are used by the author to?
Emphasize the metophorical significance of the brontosaurus' existence
Use a simile
Emphasize the importance of the poems structure
Show what it means
3
How old is Clint Smith?
42
27
567Mil
33
4
Axolotls are real
False
True
5
How can symbolism make a poem better?
It gives a new or more significant meaning
It makes the writer a better person
It doesn't
It is a comparison using like or as
6
What is one example of symbolism in the poem?
Brontosaurus
The title
Flintstones
Uneaten Food
7
Brachiosauruses are real
False
True
8
What is Clint Smith NOT Know for?
Activism
Narrator
Writing
Poetry
9
Jackalopes are real
True
False
10
What is the name of Clint Smith's book?
Milk and Honey
What Poetry Means to Me
How the World is Passed
Black Nature
11
Where was Clint Smith born?
New Orleans
Brooklyn
Memphis
Detroit
12
Which could be interpreted as a deeper meaning behind the brontosaurus?
Accidents happen
The deterioration of the human mind
Erasure of cultures in history
Broccoli is the worst vegetable
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Which is a metaphor used in the poem
As this dinosaur joins Pluto, drifting off into the purgatory of things
"A diffrent head on your shoulders"
What it means to have spent your entire life being taught something is real
"The placemats that sat under uneaten broccoli delineating"
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What was the topic of the majority of the articles Smith wrote about in The New Yorker?
Football
Soccer
Gentrification
Politics

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