In the article we will consider in detail what a figurative expression is. What does it matter how they are used, we will analyze examples with a detailed interpretation of such statements.
Interpretation and definition
So, a figurative expression is a unit of speech that is primarily used in a figurative sense. When translated into another language, as a rule, additional clarification is required. On the other hand, the following interpretation can also be given: a figurative expression is a widely used apt words, expressions, sayings, speeches, quotes from historical figures, literary characters, which eventually became common nouns.
Sayings of this kind have so long and so strongly entered our everyday life with you, and it seems that they were invented by the people. But this fact is not always true. Figurative expression is a powerful tool not only in everyday life, but also in literary works, their use brings an unsurpassed flavor.
Thanks to wonderful bibliographers and literary critics, books were collected and published that tell the reader about the primary sources of the emergence and use of sayings of this kind. Due to the uniqueness of thesebooks, each person will be able to enrich and increase the expressiveness of his speech, master and give new breath to the richest heritage of the past.
Folk expressions
The figurative expression should be learned to understand. For a better and deeper understanding, some of them should be analyzed.
- For example, hang up your nose. In other words, you can say "despite, be sad."
- Or drive a wedge. This expression can be interpreted as "deliberately quarreling, creating a quarrel between someone".
- Talk hand in hand. That is, interfere with doing something or not give the opportunity to concentrate.
- Or, let's give free rein to the language. In other words, talk a lot, speak out, tell something painful, or, conversely, give out secrets and secrets.
- Give a light. You can say: shout, punish, point out shortcomings.
- Look for the wind in the field. This means the following: the irretrievable loss of something or someone with a hopeless result.
- Let's analyze such an expression as "break into a cake". You can understand such a statement as follows: try very hard to do something.
- For example, this expression: hand in hand. Usually this expression is used when describing a happy married couple. They go hand in hand through life.
Figurative expressions in literature
The figurative expression summarizes various phenomena in people's lives. Such short sayings are passed down from generation to generation. The mode of transmission is not only an everyday formcommunication, but also literary works. Various features in the environment, in the manifestation of any action. For example, if you hurry, you will make people laugh. I took hold of the tug, don't say that it's not hefty. Darlings scold - only amuse.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin admired folk sayings, sayings, proverbs, which can also be attributed to figurative expressions. “Oh, what a sense! What a gold!” Such were the statements of the Russian poet. Sholokhov wrote about this: “The greatest we alth of the people is the language!” Folk expressions have been accumulating for thousands of years, and they live in words.
In fact, such statements are a storehouse of the wisdom of the people themselves. They very often express truth that has stood the test of time. Figurative words and expressions are often used in public speech, their use in the introduction or in the conclusion can be one of the ways of argumentation, but we should not forget that the use of statements of this kind depends on the appropriateness of the situation. In order for words to be expressive and images to be emotionally colored, figurative expressions are often used.
Conclusion
Summing up the above, I would like to note the importance of figurative statements. They are used constantly in an unchanged form, in other words, they can be attributed to stable forms. If you change the wording, then this statement may lose its deep meaning. Lotman in his book "Lectures on Structural Poetics" wrote: "The statue of Apollo in the museum does not look naked, but try to tie hertie around her neck, and she will amaze you with her indecency. Figurative statements are not created in the process of conversation, but are used as ready-made and unchanged, as it happens from generation to generation. They are rich in composition, origin and stylistic possibilities, which allows them to convey a large semantic volume with minimal means and do it so emotionally and expressively. Peshkovsky wrote: “These are living words! Reviving everything to which they are attached! Their use will allow everyone to make their speech unique and individual.
