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Class X Eng

L1

L1:Letter to God

Read the following …

• And the children look like bear’s cubs (A Legend of Northland)

• But all the rest of her clothes were burned

Black as a coal in the flame.

• The captain is as cool as a cucumber even in tense situations.

• The soldier fought like a lion.

In the above examples two things are compared using words ‘as’ /’like’.

The comparision is direct and the point of comparison is a quality…

For eg: the appearance , color of the clothes, coolness , courage/ bravery

Take a look at these sentences….

Ex: He was a lion in the battlefield.

The lawn was a green carpet.

The park was a lake after the heavy showers.

Life is a rollercoaster.

The stormy ocean was a raging bull.

In these sentences, two dissimilar things are compared indirectly. There is no use of ‘as’ / ‘like’.

When you make a hidden comparison between two unrelated

things, without using words ‘as’ or ‘like’, it is called a metaphor.

• Ex: the leg of the table: the leg supports our body so the object that supports the table is

described as a leg.

• The heart of the city: the heart is an important organ in the centre of our body. So this

word is used to describe the central area of a city.

Complete the exercise based on metaphors on page 11 in your textbook using the visual

clues given in the subsequent slides.

Look at the images below..

Clouds are compared to….. mountains and the point of

comparision is the mass/ hugeness.

Raindrops are compared to……. and the quality being compared is…….

The hailstones are compared to……. and the quality being compared is……

Locusts are compared to a _____ epidemic. The quality / feature compared is…….

____________ is being compared to an ox.. The point of comparison

is___________