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.

idk im sorry well i am new at this so im trying

d seems accurate. maybe they wanted to see if anyone would actually like it. people seem to just like any simple thing on social media so it makes sense for an experiment to be conducted just to see if it would actually

sorry if its wrong i tried. i'm also sorry i'm awkward and bad at explaining