Pushkin’s poems: «Осень», «У лукоморья дуб зелёный...»
In «Осень» Pushkin describes the coming of autumn: the sky seems to breathe autumn, the sun shines less, the days grow shorter, the forest sheds its leaves with a sad rustle, fog lies on the fields, a caravan of geese stretches south, and November stands at the gate. The book explains an epithet as “a figurative definition of an object”: «таинственная сень, крикливый караван, скучная пора». «Небо дышало» and «ноябрь стоял у двора» are personification («олицетворение»). In «У лукоморья дуб зелёный...», the opening of the long poem «Руслан и Людмила», there is a green oak by the sea with a chain on it; a learned cat walks round the chain, singing a song when it goes right and telling a tale when it goes left. There are wonders: a «леший», a «русалка» sitting on the branches, a hut on hen’s legs, thirty knights rising from the sea, Baba Yaga, Koshchei. The poet says he was there and the cat told him tales.
“Draw the line”. Each pupil draws one image from the poems (geese, the oak, the cat). Classmates guess which poem it is and name the epithet.