by Naomi Shihab Nye. In your poem journals.
What does the figurative description of the words as "houses in a landscape" suggest about his handwriting or the boy in general--what tone words seem to suggest to you, in other words?
Remember that "figurative" descriptions relate to an element of diction (connotation), and are good things to discuss/analyze in, say, an essay about language.
The use of description like "large as houses in a landscape" and how he fills "in the windows of 'o' and 'd'" makes the reader invision the smeared and large writing of a sloppy and rushed young child. Also, his poor spelling may hint at the laziness or unfocused attitude of the boy that has caused him to be in the pickle of not remembering this year.
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