Don't confuse similes with metaphors. 'The snake moved like a ripple on a pond.' 'It was as slippery as an eel.' 'Jess is as graceful as a gazelle.' In her poem George Square, Jackie Kay describes ...

The hearer of this poem This poem uses wild and wonderful similes to describe the hearer… Give and take Called 'Give and take'…but the verb in the poem is always 'give'. First day at school ...