Metaphors

As part of our focus on poetry, today we were learning about metaphors. A metaphor is when we compare a person, place or thing to something else. It's different from a simile, as we don't use the words 'like' or 'as'.

Writers use metaphors in their poetry for many reasons.

• To make the writing more interesting
• To make a clearer picture in the readers mind
• To make the reader use their imagination and really think about what they are reading 
• Because they can be funny!

We worked with a buddy to google an interesting image of the sky, then we had to create a metaphor about the image. Our writing had to:

• Have a capital letter and full stop
• Be a metaphor that used the words 'is' or 'was'
• Make sense!

We had to open a word document, copy and paste an image, change the layout, font and colour - so we were learning lots of computer skills too!

 This is what we came up with this morning.......