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A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes explicitly use connecting words such as ‘like’ and ‘as’. eg. ‘as cool as’; ‘like a child’. Discuss with your partner and - English

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Discuss with your partner and pick out the similes used in the poem. Which one do you like the most? Why?

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Similes used in this poem are :

  1.  ‘And charging along like troops in a battle’.
  2. ‘Fly as thick as driving rain’
    I like the second one the most because the poet says all the sights of hills and plains fly as quickly as a drop of rain following another drop in a storm.
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पाठ 2.2: From a Railway Carriage - Appreciating the poem [पृष्ठ १३०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English - Term 2 Class 6 TN Board
पाठ 2.2 From a Railway Carriage
Appreciating the poem | Q F. 1. | पृष्ठ १३०

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