1. Construed Response
Use RICE to Answer the Question

2. The Boa Constrictor

3. Question
ow does the poet use imagery to illustrate the action
in the poem? Give two examples from the poem to
support your answer.
se RICE to answer the question on paper.

4. Restate
estate the question as part of the answer:
he poet uses imagery to illustrate the poem by ...

5. Interpret
ou need to recognize what the quest is asking for
you to know. This question wants you to identify
imagery.
ou have to remember what imagery uses the five
senses and find two examples in the poem.

6. Connect
ou connect by identifying the information in the question to
what the question is asking.
n this example, the two senses used in the imagery of the
poem are sound and sight.
ou use words “because” and “and”.
he poet uses imagery because he uses the sense of sound and

7. Explain
n the last step you give examples from the question.
ou can use phrase like “in fact”.
xample: In fact the poet uses sight when ______________ and sound
when ________________.
ive examples from the poem to support your answer.