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Read the song lyrics below and guess the missing words. Then listen and answer the questions in red.
Come to my door, baby, Who is the speaker?
1 Face is clean and shining ___ as night. Identify the literary device.
My mother went to answer you know
That you looked so fine.
2 Now I could understand your tears and your ___,
She called you "boy" instead of your name.
3 When she wouldn't let ___ inside, What kind of conflict is this?
When she turned and said
4 "But honey, he's not our ___."
She says
I can't see you any more, baby,
5 Can't see ___ anymore.
Walk me down to school, baby,
6 Everybody's acting deaf and ___.
Until they turn and say, "Why don't you stick to your own kind."
My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares
7 Cutting deep down ___ our affairs.
Preachers of equality, How is irony used in this line?
8 Think they believe it, then why won't they ___ let us be?
They say I can't see you anymore baby,
9 Can't see you ___.
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening
10 Gonna ___ my head up high.
One of these days I'm gonna raise up my glistening wings and fly. Literary device?
11 But that day will have to wait ___ a while.
Baby I'm only society's child. Identify the literary device.
12 When we're older things ___ change,
13 But for ___ this is the way they must remain.
I say I can't see you anymore baby, How does the tone of this line shift?
Can't see you anymore.
No, I don't want to see you anymore, baby.
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