Year
4 English Home Learning Due
in Tuesday 27th September 2016
This
week we have been learning how similes, metaphors and personification can be
used in poetry to create a picture in the mind.
Simile – compares one thing
with another often uses like or as.
Metaphor – a word usually
used to describe one thing is applied to something else.
Personification – gives an
object, human qualities.
Read
this poem and underline words that are similes, metaphors or personification
and then answer the questions in full sentences.
Bus Route
When
the bus is full
It
creeps uphill
Like
an old man climbing
The
stairs to bed.
Down
the other side
It
rumbles into town
Barging
through the traffic,
An
angry bully.
Out
in the country
The
bus is empty
Rattling
through the quiet lanes
Humming
softly.
But
it can never stay;
It
has to push and shove
Bruise
and scrape its skin
In
the rough and tumble town.
Surging
crowds of people
Swarm
and clamber on it,
Fill
it to the top
At
the bottom of the hill.
1. Is the bus at the
top or the bottom of the hill at the start of the poem?
2.
In the poem does the bus travel into the town or the
country first?
3.
Do you think the bus is new or old? What words in the
poem make you think this?
4.
What does the poet mean when he says the bus is
“humming softly”?
5.
Do you think the poet thought the bus was like a
person? What words in the poem make you think this?
6.
Do you like this poem? Why?
