Imagery

• Quote the image: '"The clouds sailed across the sky."'
• X is being compared to Y


  Just as Y, so too X. This shows...
• The clouds


  • being compared to a ship
• Just as a ship glides across the water


  so too do the clouds move smoothly across the sky. This shows how calm and pleasant it was.
• Imagery


  X is being compared to Y

  Just as Y...., So this suggests X.....
• X


  the thing that is being described in the passage
• Y


  the image