means describing a thing as if it had human characteristics.
Read the poem, then answer the questions.
Today I Saw the Dragonfly
Today I saw the dragonfly
Come from the wells where he did lie
An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk from head to tail
Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.
He dried his wings like gauze they grew.
Through crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash of light, he flew
Alfred Lord Tennyson
rent
husk shel
mail
Exan
1) The girl
2) The bail
3) The clo
4) The win
5) Soon
we
6) The
fast
7) Your wo
8) My frier
9) The mo
3 Write simi
as to form
1) What moment does the poet describe in this poem?
2) Find and write a simile in the poem What does it describe?
3) Find and write two metaphors. What do they describe?
a)
Write met
Example:
1) a powe
2) a flood
b)
3) a crow
4) an old
4) Create a simile and a metaphor to describe a butterfly.
5) a bird's
6) a stron
7) a hat:
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