• Lok Raj Sharma

Teaching figures of speech refers to the teaching of literary language which generates implied or special meaning in a speech or written form. The prime objective of the research study was to examine the effectiveness of teaching figures of speech through employing diverse poetic lines and poems composed by different poets. The researcher followed a pre-experiment research method, especially one- group- pretest- posttest- design which included a pretest measure followed by a treatment and a posttest for a single group. A set of hundred multiple choice question items were administered to the mass of 50 students at three campuses that were running Education with English as a major subject in Makawanpur District, Nepal in the Academic Year 2011-2012. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 44 students out of 50 students who comprised the population for the study. The result showed there was a statistically significant difference between the Total Pretest Mean Score (M= 24.977, SD= 6.739 and N 44) and the Total Posttest Mean Score (M= 68.068, SD= 6.024 and N 44) of the students. The statistics of (df)  43, p ..05, the observed t-value 46.545 and the table t-value  2.016 at 0.05 significance level of the test showed that using poetic lines or poems in teaching figures of speech was effective at campuses separately and the campuses as a whole. This article is assumed to be useful to those who are interested in teaching and learning language and literature.

Figures of speech, language, poetry, teaching

"Examining the Effectiveness of Teaching Figures of Speech through Poetry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.587-601, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901877.pdf

"Examining the Effectiveness of Teaching Figures of Speech through Poetry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp587-601, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901877.pdf