PROVERB AND RIDDLE
PROVERB
A proverb (from Latin: proverbium)
is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a
truth based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are
often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also
be known as a maxim. Proverbs fall into the category of formulaic language.
Simply put, Proverbs are "Pearls of Wisdom".
Proverbs necessarily need to:
·
Be
popular and memorable;
e.g., All's well that ends
well.
·
Be
concise and to the point;
e.g., Practice makes
perfect.
·
Provide
sensible advice;
e.g., First thrive and then
wive.
·
Contain
unchanging truths based on experience over the years.
e.g., Honesty is the best
policy.
·
Most proverbs exhibit simple rhyme and elegant balance.
Social function
Proverbs :
to keep the wise value of life
Proverbs are often borrowed from
similar languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through
more than one language. However, almost every culture has examples of its own
unique proverbs.
Examples
Haste
makes waste
Ignorance
is bliss
Mustn't
cry over spilled milk.
Proverbs are used by speakers for a
variety of purposes. Sometimes they are used as a way of saying something
gently, in a veiled way (Obeng 1996). Other times, they are used to carry more
weight in a discussion, a weak person is able to enlist the tradition of the
ancestors to support his position, or even to argue a legal case. Proverbs can
also be used to simply make a conversation/discussion more lively. In many
parts of the world, the use of proverbs is a mark of being a good orator.
More constructively, Mieder has proposed
the following definition, “A proverb is a short, genrally known sentence of the
folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a
metaphorical, fixed, and memorizable form and which is handed down from
generation to generation.
Proverbs in various languages are
found with a wide variety of grammatical structures. In English, for example,
we find the following structures (in addition to others):
Imperative,
negative - Don't beat a dead horse.
Imperative,
positive - Look before you leap.
Parallel
phrases - Garbage in, garbage out.
Rhetorical
question - Is the Pope Catholic?
Declarative
sentence - Birds of a feather flock together.
However, people will often quote
only a fraction of a proverb to invoke an entire proverb, e.g. "All is fair"
instead of "All is fair in love and war", and "A rolling
stone" for "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
The grammar of proverbs is not always
the typical grammar of the spoken language, often elements are moved around, to
achieve rhyme or focus.
d. Summary
The most important things of proverb
and riddle are:
·
A
proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that
expresses a truth based on common sense or the practical experience of
humanity.
·
Proverbs are "Pearls of Wisdom".
·
Proverbs necessarily need to:
-
Be
popular and memorable;
-
Be
concise and to the point;
-
Provide
sensible advice;
-
Contain
unchanging truths based on experience over the years.
-
Most proverbs exhibit simple rhyme and elegant balance.
e. Task
Read the proverb and find the similar proverbs in Bahasa
Indonesia.
- You can catch more flies with
honey than you can with vinegar.
- You can lead a horse to water,
but you can't make him drink.
- Those who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones.
- A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush.
- Well begun is half done.
- A little learning is a
dangerous thing.
- A rolling stone gathers no
moss.
- It is better to be smarter
than you appear than to appear smarter than you are.
- Good things come to those who
wait.
- A poor workman blames his
tools.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
f. Test
Read the proverb and find the similar proverbs in Bahasa
Indonesia.
- If the shoe fits, wear it!
- Honesty is the best policy
- A stitch in time saves nine
- Work hard, play later
- Out of the pan, into the fire
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Haste makes waste
- Don’t judge a book by its
cover.
- Actions speak louder than words
- Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.
RIDDLE
A riddle is
a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled
meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are
of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed
in metaphorical or allegorical language
that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra,
which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question
or the answer.
Defining riddles precisely is hard
and has attracted a fair amount of scholarly debate. The first major modern attempt
to define the riddle was by Robert Petsch in
1899, with another seminal contribution, inspired by structuralism,
by Robert A. Georges and Alan
Dundes in 1963. Georges and Dundes suggested that 'a riddle is
a traditional verbal expression which contains one or more descriptive elements, a pair of which may be in
opposition; the referent of the elements is to be guessed'. There are many
possible sub-sets of the riddle, including charades, droodles, and some jokes.
In some traditions and contexts,
riddles may overlap with proverbs. The Russian phrase 'Nothing hurts it,
but it groans all the time' can be deployed as a proverb (when its referent is
a hypocrite) or as a riddle (when its referent is a pig).
Riddles
are not only just very interesting question answers, but also very useful
mental activity as well. In fact, riddles are not specified for any gender or
any age limit. Every person, either man or woman, young or old, can enjoy this
mind-refreshing activity and make his/her time better. Here the most concerning
thing about riddles is that, there are some types of riddles that everyone can
solve even kids. However, some riddles are of puzzle type and a necessary
mental level as well as educational level is required to resolves such riddles.
Besides all this, there are such types of riddles as well that have same level
of interest both for the teenagers as well as adults. Moreover, the astonishing
thing about such riddles is that, the level of difficulty of such riddles is
also same for both persons.
Riddles occur extensively in Old
English poetry. The Riddle Game is a formalized guessing game, a contest of wit
and skill in which players take turns asking riddles. The player that cannot
answer loses. Riddle games occur frequently in mythology and folklore as well
as in popular literature.
Contemporary riddles typically use
puns and double entendres for humorous effect, [citation needed] rather than to
puzzle the butt of the joke, as in "Why is six afraid of seven?"
"Because seven eight (ate) nine." These riddles are now mostly
children's humour and games rather than literary compositions.
Social function
Riddles :
to entertain by its joke
1.
Q:
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die.
What is it?
A: Nothing
2.
Q:
What comes down but never goes up?
A: Rain
3.
Q:
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A: A candle
4.
Q:
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth
daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are
wrong. It’s Mary!
5.
Q:
How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
A: It can have a hole in it.
6.
Q: What has a foot but no legs?
A:
A snail
d. Summary
The most important things of riddles
are:
-
A riddle is
a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled
meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
-
Riddles
are not only just very interesting question answers, but also very useful
mental activity as well.
-
Social function of riddles is to
entertain by its joke.
e.
Task
Answer these riddles
- What goes up when rain comes
down?
- What is the longest word in
the dictionary?
- Throw away the outside and
cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is
it?
- What occurs once in a minute,
twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
- What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
- If I have it, I don’t share
it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
- Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?
- What is at the end of a
rainbow?
- What starts with the letter
“t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
http://www.funology.com/riddles/
f. Test
Answer these riddles
- A man was driving his truck.
His lights were not on. The moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was
crossing the street. How did he see her?
- What kind of tree can you
carry in your hand?
- You draw a line. Without
touching it, how do you make the line longer?
- How many months have 28 days?
- If a blue house is made out of
blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house
is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?
- We see it once in a year, twice
in a week, and never in a day. What is it?
- Mr. Blue lives in the blue
house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house.
Who lives in the white house?
- They come out at night without
being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
- How do you make the number one
disappear?
- What goes up but never comes
down?
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