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An Analysis of Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"

In this essay on "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, the student highlights Angelou's message that self-confidence creates beauty. The student explains how diction, rhyme, and allowing the audience to identify with the speaker of the poem convey these ideas.
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Bridget's feedback:

"This is a good start, but I do want to check in about your prompt to understand where the balance of summary versus analysis should be as you move into the next draft. Your engagement with the poem and your reading is sensitive and insightful, but at the current length and form has a feeling of scratching the surface. I encourage you to develop an explicit and specific thesis and keep exploring the literary devices and rhetorical elements (e.g., audience, pathos) a bit further. By taking advantage of this draft's existing moments of analysis, you can help the reader understand the text's themes and messages ("being herself is amazing") as communicated by specific choices made by the author (explored in the body paragraphs)."

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