BALGOVIND'S EDUCATIONAL TOUR

                         6.   Missed  B. Answer the following questions with              reference to the context. 2. Sat round looking on at the match,     in the tree tops the dicky birds carolled,         All was peace... a) Who ‘sat round looking on at the                       match’? Ans: The ladies sat round looking on at the             match. b) How were they dressed? Ans: They were happily dressed. c) Which match is being referred to here? Ans: The match that the poet is playing is                 being referred to here. d) Did the peace last? What happened in             the match? Ans: No the peace did not last. The players        ...

                     You Can’t Be That  Brian Patten was born in 1946 in Liverpool. Patten is well known for his best-selling poetry collections for children. The poem is about child's wishes, aspirations and dreams with which parents show disagreement. The message is that in order to become doctors, engineers, accountants, pilots, teachers, etc., people are forgetting their feelings, emotions and human relationships. The child says that he doesn't want to be a scientist or a newsreader as they are far away from reality. He wants to be a tree because if he becomes a tree, a million of birds will fly through him. But the parents deny it saying that the child can't be that. The child again says that he doesn't want to be a pilot, dancer lawyer or an MC as they are busy with the people. He says that he wants to be an ocean in which huge whales will swim. Again it is denied by his parents that he can't become an ocean. In the third...

 11. Transferred Epithet – The epithet or the qualifying adjective is sometimes transferred from a person to a thing. For example, a) He lay all night on his sleepless pillow. b) He closed his busy life at the age of seventy six . c) He was engaged in a dishonest calling. d) The prisoner was placed in the condemned cell. A happy thought, an unlucky remark, the foolish observation, a mortal wound, a learner book. 12. Repetition: Sometimes an expression is used to intensify feeling or conviction by repeating the principal word or adding equivalent words.  For example: 1) A little grave     A little, little grave.  Here the poet emphasizes the fact that even the king has to die like his subject. Dark, dark, dark amid the blaze of the moon.  Here the word dark is repeated three times to suggest a sense of utter darkness. 2) Alone, alone, all all alone     Alone on a wide wide sea.  Here the poet tries to describe the sense of terrible lo...

            Figure of Speech An expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning in order to produce a greater effect.                        OR A figure of speech is a deviation from the ordinary use of words in order to produce a greater effect. Examples: There are six pillars to the verandah of this house. Here the world pillars is used in its ordinary are literal sense. That man is a pillar of the state. Here the word pillar is used in a figurative or non literal sense and signifies support. Break a leg is a figure of speech meaning good luck.  Kinds of figure of speech  1.Alliteration -The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words that are close together and the beginning consonant sounds must be stressed. Examples: --She sells sea shell by the seashore. --Sing a song of sixpence. --The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the br...