Urmi Satyan
The premise of proverb and its rich proliferation is vast. It ranges
from social, traditional, cultural, political, geographical to economic sectors
of human life and presents an opulent spectrum of various knowledge-packed
truisms. Its wider span sees no boundaries of form, construction, grammar or
any technical formula. Its structure, composition, creativity and capacity is
rooted in the age old traditional way of substantiating a fact based content.
Proverbs present the content more conversationally skilled. With a traditional
and colloquial fragrance and cultural association proverbs are prospectively
rich, inherently wisdom rich and assertively contextual in reference. With
adoration for proverbs that have tiny construction and a huge scope for
interpretation, this paper studies a few African proverbs that literally augment
the linguistic beauty with metaphorical, allegorical and analogical
expressions.
This paper studies how proverbs cover all the sectors of
human life and convey the proposed idea poignantly and accurately.
proverbs, cultural association, metaphorical, allegorical,
analogical
VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022