Which words does the speaker use to compare her mother to a painter? Why do you think she made this comparison?

The words used by speaker to compare her mother with a painter is when she says that her mother 'sat at [her] canvas'.

By making this comparison, the speaker is conveying how well-matched her mother is able to sew pieces of different clothes altogether into a masterpiece just like an artist.

Explanation:

'My Mother Pieced Quilts' is a poem written by Teresa Palomo Acosta. The poem is about the poet's mother's talent of weaving old cloth pieces into a beautiful canvas of fabric. The speaker notes that each piece of cloth resembled old memories.

The speaker compares her mother to a painter in stanza 5. By using the words 'in the evening you sat at your canvas', the speaker is comparing her mother to a painter, who uses different colors to paint a beautiful painting. The speaker says that her mother in evening sits to sew the fabrics into one piece, sewing the lilac purple of easter with the red plaid of winter-going-into-spring.

The poet is comparing her mother to a painter, because her mother uses different fabrics from old clothes and sew them together into a beautiful masterpiece just as an artist uses different colors frrom his palette to paint a beautiful art.

do you have a copy of the poem?

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