Figurative language is one of the literary devices used to enrich meaning literature work. The research problem this find figurative and its in novel “It Starts with Us”. This qualitative study. data collection taken from Us” by Collen Roover, published 2022. shows that there were five kinds simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, repetition. Out 86 data; 76 (86%) simile consisted using “...

The conventionalization of figurative comparisons is one source of lexical evolution. For example, anchor once only meant a device for mooring a ship, but may now be used to describe any source of stability or confidence. Our goal is to understand this process. Following the Career of Metaphor framework, figurative mappings are interpreted through a structure-mapping process, rendering common s...

Metaphor enters contemporary philosophical discussion from a variety of directions. Aside from its obvious importance in poetics, rhetoric, and aesthetics, it also figures in such fields as philosophy of mind (e.g., the question of the metaphorical status of ordinary mental concepts), philosophy of science (e.g, the comparison of metaphors and explanatory models), in epistemology (e.g., analogi...

In many of my writings I have argued that poetic images have no fixed predetermined meanings. In my 1992 book What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?—The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (originally published in 1987) I propounded the view that speech sounds do not have fixed predetermined symbolic values either.1 Poetic images as well as speech sounds are clusters of features, each of which may ...

The use of language in human life is very diverse, one which figurative language. Figurative the beautiful words with created from author's feelings to give effect by comparing thing another object that more general. objectives study are describe types found Lokamase Ceremony identify contextual meaning This research a qualitative method. method used collecting data related subject this observa...

The present paper’s aim is to investigate how the participants of an online learning environment employed written language in a creative way through the spontaneous use of figurative language. The content analysis showed that figurative language was a means to express the social dimension either to refer to the self, feelings and emotions, or to conceptualize the components of the virtual learn...