Std 8th suBject : eNglish

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a lamb! So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped: He wept to hear.

Once the poet was playing his pipe in the wild valley. He was playing songs of happiness. He happened to see a child on a cloud. The child laughed and spoke to him. The child asked him to play him a song about a lamb. The poet did it with great joy. The child asked the poet to play it again. When the poet repeated the song, the child wept to hear it.

 What is the difference between poetry and poem ?

Statement Of Aim
So today we are going to study about figures of speech

Figure of speech
A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty in poet comparing or identifying one thing with another. Generally they are used in poem

What is the tree Doing ?

What are the pencils doing

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WHAT IS THE ERASER DOING ?

 Do sun, eraser, flower, pencils, trees Dance, laugh or cry ?

WHO LAUGHS, DANCE AND CRY ?

Personification
WHEN WE GIVE HUMAN QUALITY TO INANIMATE OBJECT THAN THE FIGURES OF SPEECH IS PERSONIFICATION

Personification poem
I know that clouds arent people, But theyre looking glum today So I say that they are sad As I watch the sky turn gray. Now, the sky is not a person, But I feel its raindrop tears. So I say that it is crying, And then the sun appears. The sun is not a person, But its warmth spreads like a grin. So I say the sun is smiling, And the sky cheers up again.

 More examples

Read the Sentences

I heard the bees buzzing The clock goes tick-tock The alarm rings in the morning The duck quacked at the bird

What do you see

In all these sentences there is some kid of music When there is music in the poetic sentence The figures of speech called is onomatopoeia

ONOMATOPOEIA
the formation or use of words which imitate sounds, like whispering, clang , but the term is generally expanded to refer to any word whose sound is suggestive of its meaning. Because sound is an important part of poetry

MORE EXAMPLES
The car goes chug chug. (Sound is expressed in the word chug chug)

Makes my heart go pit-a-pat. (Sound is expressed in the word pit-apat)

Recaptulation

Evaluation
Identify the figures of speech

 Death lays his icy hands on the king.

 The pig says wee wee

 The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

 The snake hissed at its prey.

 The chiming of the bells are heard near the church

 THE ANGRY CLOUD MARCHED ACROSS THE SKY

Creative assignment
Read each sentence and tell what object is given human qualities and which object expresses sound 1. I could hear the wind whistling through the trees a. A.Which object is given human quality :_________ b. B.Which object express sound :___________ c. 2. Bright flashes of lightning were dancing in the sky and thunder was playing game. d. A. what object is given human quality :__________ e. B. Which object Produces sound :______________ 3. Write two of your own sentences that have personification and onomatopoeia