PROVERB AND RIDDLE
PROVERB
DEFINITION
Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These sayings are called by proverbs.
KINDS OF PROVERBS
1. Aphorism (pepatah). This proverb offers advice.
2. Parable (Perumpamaan). That has a moral lesson and has parable
3. Slogan (pemeo). This proverb give spirit or motivation
4. Idiom It as a pharse that has group of words with a different meaning from the meaning of all the individual word.
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
- Proverb have a function to teaching, enlightening, and persuading people. Proverbs play many roles in society. The most common role is to educate on what might happen if they do something. A proverb contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views.
- Proverb has been and remains a most powerful and effective instrument for the transmission of culture, social morality, manner, and ideas of a people from one generation to another. The proverbs deal with knowledge, experience, hard work, and human relations.
- Proverb can be used to tech people, give them some advice, help in difficult situations, show people what the most important thins in life, and show the proper way in life.
- Proverbs are very often used in personal interaction.
- Proverb can also be used mock someone or criticize.
STUCTURE OF PROVERBS
Proverbs often from clusters that share a common structure.
– Opposite parallel
– Similiar parallel
– Single statement
– Statement with an explanation
– Comparison
– Descriptive list
– Use of clause or instruction
CHARACTERISTICS OF PROVERBS
- Proverbs can be as short as two words. In addition, the full forms of popular longer proverbs are often replaced by elliptical allusions.
- Proverbs use prosodic devices that enhance their memorability, especially rhyme, alliteration, parallelism, as ellipsis.
- Proverbs often use simple rhetorical devices, metaphor, hyperbole, paradox, and personification.
Example
1. One black dot on white paper can damage everyyhing.
2. Paper that has been kneaded cannot return to it's original state.
3. Walk even though you have left far behind with the others.
4. Want to eat fruit but just see it.
5. Don't judge a book by its cover.
RIDDLE
DEFINITION
A riddle is a type of poetry that describes something without actually naming what it is, leaving the reader to guess.
SOCIAL FUNCTION
Riddle is a statement, question, or phrase that has a double meaning. It is an amusinh game for children and adults.
- When someone uses a riddle, it can be a thought provoking challange to figure it out on your own, or it can be a funny comment that makes you laugh. Riddles can be great brain busters or conversation starters to get you think. Riddle games have been played since times, and are still being played today.
- Riddles have significant roles. They include roles that may be described as cultural, educative, intelectual, ideological, cosmological, and political. Riddles teach logic about the social and cultural environment, social norms, history, biology, and much more.
- Riddles can help in memory training for children as they are expected and encourage to remember the correct answers to the riddles. Riddles also can help to introduce a variety of vocabolaries. They also provide opportunities to play phonetic, morphological, grammatical, and semantic games as they exhibit a variety of linguistic expressions and structure.
STRUCTURE OF RIDDLE
Riddle have no form set. Riddles can be a question with a quick witty answer. They can be just a sentence that makes you have a sudden realization. We can also create riddles from words that rhytme with a word in a riddle’s answer, other word and phrases that use the funny part of an answer.
CHARACTERISTIC OF RIDDLE
A riddle is a verbal puzzle, an enigmatic statement, description, or question posed by one person to another, or to a group, who have to guess the answer. We use the term loosely for more than one kind of puzzle. However, the riddle proper relies on imagery for its effects; often quite poetic imagery. Some riddles use pronoun “i” even though the word that should be guessed is a thing. For example : “If you have me, you won’t to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am i?” The answer is “a secret.
Example
1. The maker doesn't need it. The buyer doesn't use it. The user use it without use knowing what is it.
answer : I am a coffin.
2. What is full of tides byt still holds water?
Answer : Sponge
3. Example of Rhyming Riddle
The moon is my father
The sea is my mother
I have million brother
I die when I reach land
Answer : A wave on the ocean.
!!! TASK !!!
Find 5 Riddles on the internet with the answer, and write down the meaning in your book!
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