Task: Write an essay comparing and contrasting the writing styles of the two poets using the paired texts provided. Focus the analysis on poetic devices and the author's writing style. Do not analyze the theme and content. Key Points to Consider: Clear Structure: Organize your essay with a clear introductory paragraph, one body paragraph focusing on specific points of comparison, one body paragraph focusing on specific points of contrast, and a conclusion that summarizes your main arguments. Supporting Evidence: Use concrete examples from the text to support your claims Transition Words: Use transition phrases like "however," "on the other hand," "similarly," and "in contrast\" to smoothly connect your comparisons and contrasts. Compare and Contrast Writing Frame Use of the sentence frames below are optional. Introduction Begin with the title, authors, and genre of the two texts. Briefly summarize each text and explain the common theme. Body Paragraph I By comparing Lo it is clear that . The similarities between the texts demonstrate/illustrate . One example of a common characteristic i - X, for example, creates/illustrates . The poet does this by . This example highlights/underscores . Similarly, Y developes this same strategy by . The text evidence that supports this idea is . This example reveals . A second similarity between the texts is the use of For instance, when X portrays this serves to .Y achieves a similar efTect by . Even though both poets are not exact, the two poets achieve Body Paragraph 11 While X and Y , the most obvious difference between the texis is . What makes this significant is . This contrast is evident by g One more example of this difference is . This poetic technique helps to convey/create . Working together, these examples . Another way in which and differ is the use of . One example of this is . Another example is . These examples work together to portray/demonstrate . Overall, it can be said that Conclusion Ultimately, X and Y's purpose for wriling is to in order to . These works of literature are relevant because We Wear the Mask Jabari Unmasked by Nikki Grimes| Fresh out of middle school, we BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR From past to present all understand the rules: wear whatever's in, scowl on cue to convince the 1895 - 2017 world we're fearless - anything to mask [5] the million insecurities that We wear the mask that grins and lies, pockmark our skin like acne. Gone the grins when we strut down the hall. We talk tough and It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- hope to God it's enough to get us by. It's all lies. This debt we pay to human guile; We despise the masquerade. It [10] may disguise our fears, but also hides With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, our kind and tender hearts, our agile minds, the wit that sits behind our cheeks And mouth with myriad subtleties. who'd guess that some of us are geeks and nerds and poets, too? Clothed in shades [15] of chocolate skin, our color works to camouflage our How do the character and promise - at least, in certain eyes. Why should the world be over-wise, One look, and we are neatly judged this In counting all our tears and sighs? two poems gang. these thugs, these dark delinquents in debt to society. Meanwhile, you fail to see that we [20] are college-bound (more than a few), prepared to pay Nay, let them only see us, while explore racial attention to psychology, the sciences, the arts, to thoughtfully unfurl the scrolls of human We wear the mask. identity? history. Instead, you see a thief who uses guile. Is such unfairness what the world is filled with? (25] The evidence is seen in spirits ripped and torn. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries Still, the world needs the dreams we offer, and should we leave those dreams bleeding To thee from tortured souls arise. on the road, we'd shrink our own hearts We sing, but oh the clay is vile down to nothing, and that we [30] would regret. Better to let our anger go, and smile. Beneath our feet, and long the mile; The ignorant ignore as best you can, and But let the world dream otherwise, in the end, mask aside, freshen your mouth with ferocious lines of potent poetry, with metaphors that mightily reveal the myriad We wear the mask! [35] of emotions you feel - yet, in all their subtleties