trope, the use of words in a non-literal sense, is among the topics found in the language and literature of all nations. however, all methods of using words considered as tropes in a language, are not necessarily regarded as such in another language and literature; and occasionally there are similarities and differences among known tropes. in german language and literature 10 types of tropes ar...

there have been two custom views on the relation of metaphor and philosophy.some philosophers (esp.analytical philosophers)take metaphor dispensable,and tend to philosophical texts without metaphor,constituted on proper usage of words. others take metaphor indispensable as the foundation of philosophical concepts.this attitude usually implies reducing philosophy to mythological discourse and in...

Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious “tropes” (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of dea...

Concreteness and imageability have long been held to play an important role in the meanings of figurative expressions. Recent work has implemented this idea in order to detect metaphors in natural language discourse. Yet, a relatively unexplored dimension of metaphor is the role of affective meanings. In this paper, we will show how combining concreteness, imageability and sentiment scores, as ...

This article aimed to analyze the figurative language used in Bible Old Testament. The objectives of this research are find out types and meanings To data, author uses main theory proposed by Knickerbocker Reninger (1963) entitled Interpreting Literature meaning Leech (1981) Semantics. analyzed data using a qualitative method. were collected reading Bible, taking note classifying sentences that...

Figurative Language is commonly used in literary work, especially a song lyric. The also by English teachers as medium the teaching process. It makes learning proses becomes more interesting and satisfying. Besides that, contains moral message which implied lyrics can be to teach students building characters. This research aimed at finding types meaning of figurative language are Nirvana’s expl...

Abstract. The student’s communication in writing has a different style. It is interesting to be studied since it relate with literacy practice especially using technology. Thus, this current study was conducted explore the figurative language and discourse goals made by students their Instagram posts. This also describes strategy create an post as practice. use Qualitative method documentation ...

This study aimed to find the types of figurative languanges used in selescted song lyrics Arctic Monkey “AM” album. The Figurative Language found six songs lyric AM There were "R U Mine?", "Do I Wanna Know?", "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?", "One for Road", "Arabella", and "Snap out It" lyric. research show how language can be so many forms. showed ways express. qualitative method as...

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...