Ead this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the question. when i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed – ‘to whom it may concern’ – that we were marguerite and bailey johnson jr. … negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for ‘the poor little motherless darlings’ and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad. in the above excerpt, angelou uses her diction to portray the children as a simile for luggage a metaphor for luggage an exaggeration of the facts an allusion to the runaway train