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FALLING LEAVES

Metaphor

A metaphor is an indirect comparison. In a metaphor the comparison is made between two
entities by treating them as one and the same.

1. She was the white lily among a bevy of girls.
2. A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind.
3. The rain came down in long knitted needles.

D2 Identify the figures of speech in the following poetic extracts.
1. It’s a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog.

2. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
3. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards coloured rags and throws away food.

4. My heart is like an open highway.
5. As idle as a painted ship upon a pointed ocean.

6. Men’s words are bullets that their enemies take up and use against them.

E Learn by Doing

E1 Find and write the answers to the following questions using various sources of information.
You can ask people, read books or look them up on the Internet.

1. Name the season when trees in cold areas shed their leaves.
2. What other things do you know besides plants which have ‘leaves’?

3. Identify the tree whose leaf is shown on the right.
4. Can ‘leaf’ be used as a verb? If yes, what does it mean?

5. What is the meaning of the idiom ‘take a leaf out of someone’s book’?
6. When a person says that he is going to ‘turn over a new leaf’, what does he/she mean?

7. If you say that a person ‘is shaking like a leaf’ what do you mean?

E2 The six seasons
The poem ‘Falling Leaves’ describes the autumn season. In cold and temperate regions
of the world, four seasons are experienced: spring, summer, autumn and winter. However,
Indian calendars divide the year into six seasons. Do some research and make a table with
the following information: names of each of the six seasons, corresponding months of the
Gregorian calendar and the climatic conditions during each season.

E3 Divide the class into five groups. Your teacher will randomly assign a season to each group:
summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and spring. As a group, draw or paint an image depicting
your season and put it up in class.

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