THE ROLE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A LITERARY TEXT
Keywords:
figurative language, metaphors, cognitive linguistic, Conceptual MetaphorAbstract
Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. Figurative language may involve analogy to similar concepts or other contexts, and may involve exaggerations. Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, we are using figurative language. By using figurative language, writers can evoke emotion and imagery from their writing that literal language just cannot provide. By doing so, figurative language makes expressing meaning through writing easier and more relatable to the reader. For many people, figurative language is a mean of poets or writers, in other words, creative people. Just a few people are aware of the fact that we actually use metaphorical expressions every day. It depends on the view everybody has what someone thinks about it. %e aim of this paper is to show that figurative language is omnipresent in our every day language and that we are using it almost constantly, maybe unconsciously.
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