accomplish new heights. g. Find the words from the poem which mean the same as given below. .
song . light brown . move swiftly and lightly . sugary fluid .
encouraging h. How does one enjoy poetry? Poetry can be enjoyed at various levels. One such level is in understanding the imagery used by the poet to create a vivid description of the scene that appeals to our senses.
Here in this poem the visual imagery is triggered by the use of colours creating an effect of seeing the colourful birds in the sanctuary. Pick out some of the colour imagery used by the poet to describe the sanctuary. Here are a few examples: Eg. .Lyric throats of amber, ebony and fawn .
Sea - washed silver . Honey - bird shama i. Work in pairs and find alliterative pairs from the poem. .
. LANGUAGE STUDY GENRES ( /ӡᾶrƏ/ ) OF LITERATURE Here are a few popular genres for you to know and learn. Identify them while enjoying works of literature. .
Ballad: Oldest form of poetry in a song form narrating a story in short stanzas . Biography: Life history of a person written by someone else 12th Communicative English Book.indb Page . Comedy: The term in any discourse or work generally inducing laughter . Couplet: A pair of successive lines of verse typically rhyming and of same length .
Elegy: Poem of serious reflections, a lament for the dead . Epic: Long narrative poem in relation to the central heroic figure, becoming a part of history of a nation or race . Folklore: Traditional beliefs and customs or stories of a community, passed through generations by word of mouth (oral tradition) . Haiku: A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of , , evoking images of natural world .
Horror: Literature intended to scare, disgust or startle readers through feelings of terror and sometimes through supernatural elements . Lampoon: Publicly criticize by ridicule or sarcasm . Limerick: