Teaching Language Properties!

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Hi there!
If you are new to my blog, you are welcome. But for those who read me regularly, you guys know me better about my pieces. I usually try to pick issues that I think I should share or whatever I feel comfortable discussing. However, many of them are boring and I know it; but I like them.

If a topic can't make me feel comfortable while writing, I simply avoid them. No Matter how amazing the topic is! If you've noticed some of my earlier posts you may find my preferences. I am a language enthusiast and at the same time a practitioner of universal language properties . Honestly speaking, I love this enthusiasm for knowing and sharing the stuff related to language or linguistics.

Let me give you an oversimplified idea about linguistics; narrowly speaking it simply deals with the scientific study of languages and their properties.
I am a language teacher. My job is to motivate and encourage people to learn several languages. And I must tell you, I love what I do.

In this little journey of mine, I have met thousands of students and got the opportunity to teach English Language in the vision taking it as a second or foreign language skill. I generally focus on teaching the four universal basic properties of language. They are, reading-writing-listening-speaking.
In order to make my students skilled in these criteria, I used to make them practice an ample amount of examples on the particular skill and try to make them use it as much as possible in their communication.

I always tell them to focus on the purpose of learning a language; which is definitely communication. Okay! That's enough for pushing my main point for today I guess.

However, I want to share a simple issue or you can say language ingenuity to my beloved folks. You guys! Some days earlier I was given a class on writing and I must say that my topic was some figures of speech or literary device that can make a trivial idea towards a poetic one. I told them about Simile and Metaphor; Giving some examples to show them how we can use as or like to make an indirect comparison as well as excluding them to make a direct comparison. See the below examples;

Lana is like a rose!
Simile

Lana is a rose!
Metaphor

Writers use them in frequent intervals in their composition. Poets love them a lot. And then I introduced Personification; a genuine liking of mine. Writers, poets, composers, bloggers, artists use this device a lot. It helps them to express their desired thoughts into presentations.

Personification simply refers to giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object or thing. If you have already seen it, listened, read or watched some object(as for example a chair) is talking, expressing it's grief or doing something that only humans can do. You surely have been through a clear example of personification. Poets are even more forward stepping on this point.

They've made the moon talk, the clouds dancing, the woods talk, the wind sing or anything they wanted to have the subtle quality. Isn't that amazing.
I know many of my readers are die hard fans of modern and post modern literature; you guys can easily relate this idea with your schemata. I suggest my students to use these types of literary devices while they are trying to compose any creative writing or speech they are delivering.

Many of my students were amazed knowing these small details which they usually overlook. Sometimes, I had to make them remember about Aesop's Tales they like to reread and enjoy.
And yes, that's how it is. My regular stuff with my students. I hope you like it. Feel free to comment on it. I will definitely go through them.

Thank you and always be happy.
Chillax!