Answer:
The comparison Angelou is making with the metaphors of bed as cooling board and blanket as winding sheet is burial preparations for after death
Explanation:
During the picking season, my grandmother would get out of bed at four o'clock and creak down to her knees and chant in a sleep-filled voice, "our father, you for letting me see this new day. you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on last night to be my cooling board, nor my blanket my winding-sheet." in this excerpt use context clues to identify what comparison Angelou is making with the metaphors of bed as cooling board and blanket as winding-sheet.
* bed linens at a resort
* a rack for hot food and a dish towel
* burial preparations for after death
* ironing equipment
These lines describe how the character's grandmother is grateful to good to be alive one more day, and she prays to him after having open her eyes another morning, the words cooling board and winding-sheet refer to the place where the body would rest after death, being the body and the coffin a cold since there is no life in there anymore, and the winding-sheet is the one that it is used to wrapped corpses to burial.
