Question

Question
Read "The Cricket Sang" by Emily Dickinson.

The cricket sang,

And set the sun,

And workmen finished, one by one,

Their seam the day upon.

The low grass loaded with the dew,

The twilight stood as strangers do

With hat in hand, polite and new,

To stay as if, or go.

A vastness, as a neighbor, came,—

A wisdom without face or name,

A peace, as hemispheres at home,—

And so the night became.



In 1-2 sentences, explain how figurative language such as use of metaphor and simile can help a reader create meaning. please write it like a 6th grader.

(2 points)

Answer 1

Figurative language, like metaphors and similes, can help a reader understand and explain things that are hard to imagine or describe by comparing them to something else that is more familiar.