Model answer: The writer compares the stars to spectators. This helps the reader to form an image of how the stars are grouped together in the sky in the same way as spectators sit together to watch a football game.
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Round one month, oval another.
Squashed and without air, begging to be filled again.
White and grey marks from being kicked about and used
on the football pitch, up in the vast expanse of space.
The moon, just waiting to be used, waiting to make its first, victorious goal.
Speckled sparkling spectators look on.
What is the effect of the phrase, Speckled sparkling spectators look on?
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