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PROVERB (PRIBAHASA)

PROVERB atau dikenal dengan istilah pribahasa merupakan ayat atau kumpulan kata mempunyai
susunan tetap, mengandung pengertian tertentu berisi saran-saran positif

Kinds of Proverbs:

1. Aphorism (Pepatah)

This proverb offers advice.

Example : Don’t go too far in small.

(Persoalan kecil jangan dibesar-besarkan).

2. Parable (Perumpamaan)

That has a moral lesson and has parable.

Example : To carry coals to New-castle.

(Bagai membuang garam kelaut)

3. Slogan (Pameo)

This proverb gives spirit or motivation.

Example :

1. Early bird gets worm

(Tuhan akan memberikan rezeki kepada makhluk-Nya yang lebih dulu bangun)

2. Diligence is the mistress of success.

(Kerajinan pangkal kesuksesan)

4. Idiom

Idiom adalah kelompok kata yang dirangkai dengan susunan tertentu dimana artinya tidak dapat
ditebak dari arti kata-kata penyusunnya secara terpisah.

Example :

1. Pull your sock up. (improve your behaviour)

2. You can arrange your bedroom at will. (sesuka hati)

3. Don’t mention it. (You’re welcome)

2. RIDDLE (TEKA-TEKI)

RIDDLE adalah jenis puisi yang menggambarkan sesuatu tanpa benar-benar penamaan apa itu,
meninggalkan pembaca untuk menebak.
Teka-teki bisa apa saja, dari teka-teki tentang binatang sampai tentang obyek. Tidak ada aturan
tentang bagaimana struktur sebuah puisi teka-teki, teka-teki bisa lucu atau dapat sajak, itu
tergantung pada orang yang menulis teka-teki.

Riddle :

1. What building has the most stories? An eye

2. What is broken every time it’s spoken? Smoke

3. What four letter word can be read upside down, downside up, and up to down? Tomorrow

4. What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the
evening?” Night falls and day breaks

5. What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? A river

6. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water.
What am I? A man, since he crawls as a child then walks and uses a cane when he gets older.

7. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a
bed but never sleeps? Library

Riddle Poems

I. The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end
of every place.

-The Guess Book (c. 1820)

Answer : The letter e

II. There is one that has a head without an eye, And there’s one that has an eye without a head.
You may find the answer if you try;

And when all is said,

Half the answer hangs upon a thread.

-Christina Rosset
 Answer : Pins and needles

III. We are little airy Creatures,

All of diff’rent Voice and Features, One of us in Glass is set,

One of us you’ll find in Jet, T’other you may see in Tin, And the fourth a Box within, If the fifth you
should pursue It can never fly from you.

-Jonathan Swift

Answer : Vowels

IV. At the back of every Igloo, And the middle of the Moon,

Always running around in Loops you’ll find me, If you look inside the Room.

What am I?

Answer : oo

V. Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

-J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer : Wind

VI. Alive without breath, As cold as death;

Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail, never clinking.

-J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer : Fish

VII. He has no feet, yet travels far;

literate, but no scholar he;

no mouth, yet he clearly speaks. If you know him, you are wise.

-Subhasitaratnabhandagara (Sanskrit riddle poem)

Answer : A letter

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PROVERB AND RIDDLE

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A. INTRODUCTION

In our culture, have you heard these expressions?

– Hemat pangkal kaya
– Besar pasak daripada tiang
– Ada udang di balik batu
Can you tell the meaning? Those examples are called peribahasa in Indonesia or proverbs in English

B. PROVERB

Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These
sayings are called by proverbs.
Example : Time is money = waktu adalah uang. (Waktu sangat berharga atau penting, maka manusia
harus menggunakan waktu sebaik mungkin). Proverb and riddle

KINDS OF PROVERBS

1. Aphorism (pepatah). This proverb offers advice.

Example; Don’t go too far in small. (persoalan kecil jangan dibesar-besarkan)
2. Parable (Perumpamaan). That has a moral lesson and has parable
Example: To carry coals to Newcastle (Bagai membuang garam ke laut)
3. Slogan (pemeo). This proverb give spirit or motivation
Example
– Early bird gets worm ( Tuhan akan memberikan rezeki kepada makhluk-Nya yang lebih dahulu
bangun)
– Diligence is the mistress of success (rajin pangkal sukses)
4. Idiom
It as a pharse that has group of words with a different meaning from the meaning of all the individual
word.
Examples:
– Pull your sock up (improve your behavior)
– You can arrange your bedroom at will (sesuka hati)
– Don’t mention it (You’re welcome)

SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF PROVERB

Proverb have a function to teaching, enlightening, and persuading people. Proverbs play many roles
in society. The most common role is to educate on what might happen if they do something. A
proverb contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views.

Proverb has been and remains a most powerful and effective instrument for the transmission of
culture, social morality, manner, and ideas of a people from one generation to another. The proverbs
deal with knowledge, experience, hard work, and human relations.

Proverb and provebial sayings have for centuries been equally popular with all nations, despite their
regional diversities, and crearly, for the impact the have made.
Proverb can be used to tech people, give them some advice, help in difficult situations, show people
what the most important things in life, and show the proper way in life.

Proverbs are very often used in personal interaction.

Proverb can also be used mock someone or criticize.

STUCTURE OF PROVERBS

Proverbs often from clusters that share a common structure.

– Opposite parallel
– Similiar parallel
– Single statement
– Statement with an explanation
– Comparison
– Descriptive list
– Use of clause or instruction

CHARACTERISTICS OF PROVERBS

Proverbs can be as short as two words. In addition, the full forms of popular longer proverbs are
often replaced by elliptical allusions.

Proverbs use prosodic devices that enhance their memorability, especially rhyme, alliteration,
parallelism, as ellipsis.

Proverbs often use simple rhetorical devices, metaphor, hyperbole, paradox, and personification.

C. RIDDLE

A riddle is a type of poetry that describes something without actually naming what it is, leaving the
reader to guess. It is a light hearted type of poetry which involves the reader. Riddles can be about
anything, from riddles about animals to riddle about objects. There are no rules on how to structure
a riddle poem, a riddle can be funny or it can rhyme, it depends on the person writing the riddle.

Example :
1. It’s an animal. It’s an orange black. It has stripes. It has four paws. It lives in the jungle. What is it?
It is a tiger.
2. I have three eyes, all in a row. When the red one opens, all freeze. I am traffic light.
3. Example of Rhyming Riddle
I come in different style.
I can help you walk for miles.
Come in pair
I’m something what you wear
With heels I’m glam
CAn you guest what I am?
I am a shoes.

SOCIAL FUNCTION OF RIDDLE

A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase that has a double meaning. It is an amusing game for
children and adults. Today riddle aren’t used as much as they were in ancient times, but they remain
a definite way to get your mind working.

When someone uses a riddle, it can be a thought provoking challange to figure it out on your own, or
it can be a funny comment that makes you laugh. Riddles can be great brain busters or conversation
starters to get you think. Riddle games have been played since times, and are still being played today.

Riddles have significant roles. They include roles that may be described as cultural, educative,
intelectual, ideological, cosmological, and political. Riddles teach logic about the social and cultural
environment, social norms, history, biology, and much more.

Riddles can help in memory training for children as they are expected and encourage to remember
the correct answers to the riddles. Riddles also can help to introduce a variety of vocabolaries. They
also provide opportunities to play phonetic, morphological, grammatical, and semantic games as
they exhibit a variety of linguistic expressions and structure.

In conclusion, riddles have a role in the education of communities and in development of analytical
thinking lies the fact that the answer to the riddle is already known to the audience.

STRUCTURE OF RIDDLE

Riddle have no form set. Riddles can be a question with a quick witty answer. They can be just a
sentence that makes you have a sudden realization. We can also create riddles from words that
rhytme with a word in a riddle’s answer, other word and phrases that use the funny part of an
answer.

CHARACTERISTIC OF RIDDLE

A riddle is a verbal puzzle, an enigmatic statement, description, or question posed by one person to
another, or to a group, who have to guess the answer. We use the term loosely for more than one
kind of puzzle. However, the riddle proper relies on imagery for its effects; often quite poetic
imagery. Some riddles use pronoun “i” even though the word that should be guessed is a thing. For
example : “If you have me, you won’t to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am i?”
The answer is “a secret”.