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IDIOM

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Rita m.s 

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IDIOM
    

is 1.  a : the language peculiar to a people or to district, community, or class : Dialect

         b : the sintactical grammatical, or structural from peculiar to a language 

    

    2.  : an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to it self either grama

           tically ( as no , it wasn't me ) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from

          the conjoined meanings of its elements (as ride herd on for " supervise").

    

    3 :  a style or torm of artistict expressions that is characteristic of an individual, a pe

           riod or movement, or a medium or instrument  < the modern jazz idiom >: manner 

           style < a new culinary idiom>

    Example of Idiom:

    she is the populist in politics, as she repeatedly makes clear for no very clear reason.

    yet the idiom of the populace is not popular with her.

    

Proverbs by Rita

Proverbs

A proverbs 

is a short statement usually known by many people.

it states something that is common experience or gives advice. 

Here are some examples.

The best things in life are free." 

we don't have to pay for the things that are really valuable, like 

love, friendship and good health.

" A stitch in time saves nine."

Repair something as soon as its dsmaged. That's a small repair 

job . If not you will have a much bloger and more expensive re

pair job letter.

"still waters run deep."

some rivers have rough surfaces with waves. That's usually be

cause the water is shallow and there are rocks near the surface.

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach ." 

Many women have won a man's love by cookibg delicious meal

s for him. they fed his stomach and found love in his hearth.

Rita homonimy blogspot

Homonymy, Homophony,Homograph

A. Defininition of homonymy The word homonym has been derived from greek term 'Homoios' which means identical and 'onoma' means name. => so homonymy is a relation that holds between two lexemes that have the same from but unrelated meaning s. homonymys are the words that have same phonetic form(homophones) or ortographic form (homograph) but diff erent unrelated meanings. 

 An example of homonym which is both homophone and homograph is the word 'fluke'. Fluke is a fish as wel a s a flatworm. other example are bank, an anchor, an

 B. Homophony is the case where to words are pronounced identically but they have different written forms. They sound a like but a written differently and often have different meanings. 

for example : no-know, led-lead, would-wood. 

C. Homograph is a word which is spelled the same as another word another word and might be pronounced the same of diff erently but which has a different. 

 for example: Bear-bear ; Read-read. When homonyms are spelles the same they are homograph but not all homonims are homographs.

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Hyperbole

Hyperbole 
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RITA M.S ;-)

Hyperbole 

Hyperbole ,derived from a greek word meaning "over -casting " is a vigure of speech, which

involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

It is a device that we employ in our day -to - day speech. for intance, when you meet a friend

after a long time , you say" ,  ages have passed since I last saw you " .you may not have met him for three or four hours or a day, but the use of the word "ages " exaggerates this statment to add emphasiss to your wait. Therefore, a hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize the real situation . some other common hyperbole examples are given below.

* My grandmother is as old as the hills.

* your switcase weighs a ton!

* she is as heavy as an elephant!

* Im dying of shame

* Im trying to solve a million issues these days.

 It is important not to confuse hyperbole with simile and metaphor.It does make a comparison but unlike simile and metaphor hyperbole has a humorous effect created by an overstatement.


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Metonimy and synecdoche

Metonymy 

&

Synecdoche

By : Rita m.s

 Metonymy

is => often confused with another figure of speech called synecdoche. They resemble 

each other but are not the same . Synecdoche revers to  a thing by the name of one of

one of its parts . 

for example, Calling a car " a wheel " is a synecdoche.

A part of a car i.e."a wheel" stands for the whole car.In a metonymy, on the other hand,

wirds we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that particular thing, but is 

not a part of it.

for example, " crown" which means power or authority is a metonymy.

Metonymy is different from a metaphor.

A methapor draws resemblance between two different things as in " you are sunlight 

and I moon " - dun and moon from miss saigon.

Examples of Metonymy in Everyday  life 

* England decides to keep check on imigration. ( England refers to the goverment. )

Metonymy example from literature 

* " friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

Mark Anthony uses " ears" to say that he wants the people present there to listen to

him attentivelly . It is metonymy because the word "ears" replaces the concept of att

ention.

Function of metonymy

Generally , metonymy is used in developking literary simbolism i.e. it gives more pro

found meanings to otherwise common ideas and objects.By using metonymy, texts

exhibit deeper or hidden meanings snd thus drawing readers attention.

In addition, the use of metonymy help achieve conciseness.

Collocation

Collocation

by 

Rita m.s

Colocation (Disambiguation)

colocation is a sequence of words or terms that cooccur more often than

 would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of

phraseme.

An example  of a phraseologycal collocation, as pripounded by michael 

holliday, is the expression strong tea.

While the same meaning ciuld be comvyed by the roughly equivalent

*Powerful tea, this expression is considered in correct by english speakers.

Conversely, the responding expressions for computer, powerful computers 

is preferred over *strong computers. Phraseplogical collocation shouls not

be confused with idioms, where meaning is derived, whereas collocations 

are mostly compositional.

There are about six main types of collocations : adjective + noun, noun + 

noun (such as collectives noun ), verb + noun , adverb + adjective, verbs+

 prepositional phrase ( phrasal verbs), and verb + adverb.

Collocation extraction is a taskvthat exyracts collocatoons automatically

from a corpus , using computational linguistics.

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