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HYPERBOLE

Hyperbole A.     Defenition        In hyperbole a statement is made emphatic by overstatement (Wren & Malik 1995:229). According to Diyani (2004:563), hyperbole is a exaggeration; understatement.  In additional, hyperbole is a figure of speech which greatly exaggerated the truth (Webster. 1994:476). Hornby (2000:418) affirms that hyperbole issue of exaggerated statement made for effect and not intended to be taken literally.    Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure 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 instance, 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 statement to add emphasis to your wait.  Therefore, a hyperbole is an un...
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    HELLO GUYS…!!! Hihihi…allhamdulillah we can still meet again and I can also continue our lesson. Yesterday, we had learnt about morphology right ? as we know that morphology is a study about morphemes. But now, we will continue our lesson about syntax.  What is syntax ?mmm… is it a food :D ? ahahhaha..i’m not sure about that however I’m hungry now hihihi,,,british linguistics often use the term ‘ grammar ’ for the same level of language  that is reffered to as ‘ syntax ’ by many american.  So, syntax is a study about how words combine into large units  and with it’s conection to others words, exactly like pharase,clause and sentence which will be explaned in the below. The phrase The pharase is a group of words  which funtions as a unit and with exception of the verb pharase it self,does not contain a finite verbs. Cosider this definition by examining a few sentence : The little boy sat in the corner. ð   We  can replace ‘...
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Semantic

S E M A N T I C      Semantic has two vital area considered of semantic fields and sematic relations. These concepts are simplest kind of generalization assigns meaning to the same lexical set based on the semantic similarities. A.    Sematic Field      Adrienne Lehrer (1985) defined semantic field as a set of lexemes which cover a certain conceptual domain and which bear certain specifiable relations to one another. It means that semantic field is a set of words or lexemes related in meaning; also called lexical field or field of meaning. For instance, there is considerable overlap between terms like, child and toddler or minor and juvenile.      Although the terms lexical field or semantic field are usually used interchangeably, Siegfried wyler (1992) made a distinction between a lexical field is a structure formed by lexemes while a semantic field is underlying meaning which finds expression in lexemes...
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