FIGURES OF SPEECH OF NGEKHANE IN ALAS WEDDING CEREMONY
Abstract: This article
addresses figures of
speech of Ngekhane
in Alas wedding ceremony.
The data were
taken from Ngekhane
text recorded in Alas
wedding ceremony .
The method of the
research is descriptive. It gives
description about the figures of speech
used in Alas
wedding ceremony. The
findings show that there are seventeen figures of speech
but figures of speech used in Alas wedding
ceremony only six
figures of speech
namely simile, merism, repetition,
hyperbole, metaphor, meiosis
/ litotes. From the
six figures of
speech used in
Alas wedding ceremony, merism
was dominantly used
in Alas wedding ceremony it
was indicated that
Alas people was
very clear and brief in speaking. Suitable with the
function of merism was as an addition explanation of the sentence and to
clarify the meaning of the sentence.
Those figures of
speech were reflected
Alas culture value namely
politeness, friendliness, respect
the older, and resoluteness .
Author: Abdul Halim
Journal Code: jppendidikangg130062
