Poets choose words carefully so you can see, hear and feel things. When a poem says “the moon is a lantern hung high in the night”, you picture the moon glowing like a lamp.
Poets also compare things using like or as: “as soft as a cloud”, “bright like a star”. These comparisons help you imagine. Many poems repeat lines or have rhyming words to make a pattern.
Read a poem twice: once for fun, and once to notice the pictures it makes.
Worked example
Read: “The snow was a white blanket on the town.” What picture does this make?
- What is a blanket like? It covers things and is soft.
- So the snow covers the whole town softly.
Answer:The snow covers the town like a soft, white blanket.
Key words
- image
- a picture made with words
- compare
- say how two things are alike
- repeat
- say again
Practise this
New questions every time.
Common Core-referenced: RL.2.4