additional imagery, increasing emotional intensity, and stating the meaning in brief compass.
a. Giving Imaginative Pleasure
Human‘s mind is triggered to make an imagination when heshe is seeing something through their eyes and also when heshe is listening to music or speech.
It shows that human‘s mind has ability or faculty which can automatically process an imagination to what is written or spoken. It also needs a device to give the
pleasure for what is said. Thus, a figure of speech is used to be a comprehension device in order to facilitate people to build imaginative pleasure since figures of
speech create more than ordinary language. As Perrine stated, a figure of speech is therefore satisfying, providing
humans with such a source in the exercise of the imagination 1977: 69. For example, the expression of your face is pretty is compared to the expression of
your face produce such a beauty which can seduce the entire earth. Those two expressions provide the same idea which means a beautiful woman. It clearly
shows the first expression contains an ordinary language which does not give imaginative pleasure because it delivers an ordinary idea. Yet, the second
expression is provided an uncommon idea which gives imaginative pleasure by using hyperbole as the choice of word. It intends to evoke the audience‘s
imagination by exaggerating the effects of the woman‘s face. The expression delivers the idea and evokes the imagination of a very beautiful woman, who may
seduce the world.
b. Creating additional imagery
The next function of using figures of speech in works is to create additional imagery which appears the visual effects among the audiences. It transforms the
idea to the audiences to wider their perception. Perrine stated that figures of speech is a way of creating additional imagery into verse, of making the abstract
concrete, and of making poetry more sensuous 1977: 69. It indicates that figure of speech is a powerful way of multiplying imagery to evoke sense of such kind
of work. For instance, the expression her heart is pure even like a newborns baby contains
simile since it compares two different things by applying ‗like‘ in the expression. Furthermore, it gives the idea to bring additional imagery since the
audience ‘s mind will transform and build an image on the mind to imagine that
her heart is pure as a newborn baby. It visualizes the image on the mind that makes an abst
ract concept to become concrete. Also, it shapes the audience‘s imagination.
c. Increasing emotional intensity
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