Minggu, 24 November 2013

Kinds of Figurative language in Poetry (Majas dalam Puisi)

It is word and language are used to extend their meaning beyond the everyday and create more than surface meaning.
Here are kinds of figurative languages:
1.      Simile = a figure of speech that involves a direct comparison between two unlike things and usually using LIKE or AS
Example: You are as beautiful as rose
2.      Metaphor = a figure of speech that involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using the form of BE
Example: The hotel is a diamond of sky
3.      Personification = a figure of speech which human characteristics are given to an animal or object.
Example: The small dog laughed.
             The flowers danced in the lawn
4.   Imagery = language appeals to the five senses [sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch]. Description of people or object stated in the term of our sense.
Example:
5.      Irony = to discover or construct the opposite of the apparent meaning.
Example: You’re beautiful but you’re ugly
6.      Hyperbole = an exaggeration statement that is so dramatic.
Example: I’ve loved you for a thousand years
7.      Alliteration = the repetition of the same initial sound, letter, group of sound in the series of words.
Example: She sells seashells by seashore
8.      Synecdoche = to discuss apart as it represents the whole
Example: The ship was lost with all hands [sailors]
9.      Onomatopoeia = the use of word that imitates natural sound made by object or action.
Example: Tik-tik-tik, the sound of rain
10.  Idiom = refers to a construction or expressions in one language that cannot be directly translated word by word.
Example: The task is a piece of cake. It has meaning that the task is very easy.
11.  Litotes = basically, the opposite of hyperbole often it is ironic.
Example: Calling s slow moving person, speedy.

NB: " This is my summary after I learned about FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE and I got the resources from the presenters' explanation and PPT in the class, 5th semester of UNIPDU Jombang and others relevant resources, internet, books, etc"

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