The document is a poem called "Fireworks" by James Reeves. It uses descriptive language to compare fireworks to flowers through similes and metaphors. The poem describes fireworks rising into the sky like "sudden fiery flowers" and bursting "in burning showers." It also refers to fireworks as "buds too wonderful to name" and compares Catherine wheels to "whirling marigolds" through simile. Metaphors in the poem describe the sky as "an orchard" and fireworks as "magic trees."

1. Write these words in your spelling
booklet.
Fiery Movement
Fireworks Mysterious
Magic Strange
Metaphor Whirling
Miracle

2. What is the connection between
these two items?
Fireworks Flowers

3. Fireworks
by James Reeves

4. They rise like sudden fiery flowers
That burst upon the night,
Then fall to earth in burning showers
Of crimson, blue and white.
Like buds too wonderful to name,
Each miracle unfolds
And Catherine Wheels begin to flame
Like whirling marigolds.
Rockets and Roman Candles make
An orchard of the sky,
Where magic trees their petals shake
Upon each gazing eye.

5. This poem uses lots of similes.
similes
What is a simile?
simile

6. A simile compares one thing with
something different.
It uses the words:
“like” or
like
“as …… as ……”.
……

7. This poem uses the “like ……” type of
simile.
She leapt over the fence like a frog
hopping over a branch

8. In groups, find three similes used to
compare the fireworks with flowers.

9. “They rise like sudden fiery flowers”
“Like buds too wonderful to name”
“Like whirling marigolds”

10. In groups, find what two things the
fireworks are said to be in verse three.
“An orchard in the sky”
“Magic trees”
These are NOT similes.
similes
Do you know what they are?

11. They are metaphors.
metaphors
We use a metaphor when we say one
thing IS something that it is not.

12. The eagle soared through the sky, a
missile ready to hit its target.
“Missile” is a
metaphor for
the eagle.

13. “An orchard in “Magic trees”
the sky”
What do these metaphors tell us?

14. In groups, find two words that
suggest there is something strange
and mysterious about the
fireworks?
“Miracle”
“Magic”

15. In groups, find a word in verse one
that suggests the fireworks are
only beautiful for a short time?
“Burst”

16. In groups, find a word in verse two
that describes the movement of
the Catherine Wheel?
“Whirling”

17. Task
Use the quotations we have found
to answer the questions about the
poem.

18. Name Fireworks Date
Form

19. Number your answers.
Answer each question in a full sentence –
do not begin sentences with “because”.
Use quotations from the poem in each
answer.
Use “quotation marks” around words
taken from the poem.
Read the questions carefully. Some

20. Example
1. In verse one Reeves compares the
fireworks to “…………”. In verse two he
uses the similes “…………” and “…………”. In
verse he uses the metaphors “…………” and
“…………”.
1. The two words that suggest there is
something strange and …………