Use your annotations to answer the questions.
What is the author’s purpose in stanza 2?
What inference can the reader make about the speaker?
Read the following example from the poem:

How does this description affect the mood of the poem?
In paragraph 1, the author uses the comparison “Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine” most likely to emphasize that —
Which sentence suggests that the trees motivate the speaker?
What are the most likely reasons the author includes the image with the text?
Select TWO correct answers.