Week 3

Task 1

Re-watch the following video of ‘The Spider and the Fly’ poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOjXlIqoCyo

In the poem, there are lots of metaphors used.

Metaphors compare different things.

 They suggest that two things are the same.

Eg. They call the spiral of the web a ‘winding stair’

Can you find any more metaphors in the poem?

Task 2

Here is a spider’s web.

Write a metaphor to describe:

a) its shape

b) its colour

c) its strength.

Eg. The spider’s web is a steel rope, that it uses to entrap its prey.

The spider uses a metaphor to describe the fly: “Your robes are green and purple”.

Write three metaphors to describe the spider’s appearance.

E.g. The spider’s hairy, spindly legs were a cage around the helpless fly.

Task 3

This poem is also a fable, because it has a lesson/moral at the end.

What is the moral?

How does the spider trick the fly?

Why isn’t flattery (excess praise) a good thing?