Similes and Metaphor

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Expected Learning Outcomes

Learners will be able to:

• Identify the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
• describe the metaphor in the given poem.
• create similes or metaphors and use them in sentences.

What are poetic devices?

Poetic devices are essentially tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning.

Examples: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration

What is a simile?

Use a simile to describe your best friend.
Example : Radha is as intelligent as Einstein.

The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the shelve.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

As the teacher entered the room, she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus."

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

 The pillow was a cloud when I put my head on it after a long day.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

The giant's steps were thunder as he ran towards Jack.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

Pick out an example of metaphor from the poem"Where Mind Is Without Fear"

Metaphor-

Eg: a) ‘the head is held high’ (physically speaking, Indians could hold their heads high, but this expression is used to show how Indians were considered lower humans than the British. Only the rulers could live dignified lives.)

b) ‘Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls’ (The walls being talked about are not physical structures of brick and cement, but the walls of narrow-minded thinking, like caste system)

c ) ‘the clear stream of reason’ (The poet compares a logical mind to a clear stream. In both cases, clear water is good and muddy water is not desired.)

Use a metaphor to describe your favourite sports person.

Homework

Complete page Number 84 in studio book.

NOW ,I CAN
Identify the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
describe the metaphor in the given poem.
create similes or metaphors and use them in sentences.

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