The Perception of Hyperbole in Yorùbá Oral Literature: A Sociological Approach.
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2024
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Abstract
Hyperbole is a figurative language and literary
technique in which a speaker or an author uses exaggeration or
emphasizes an idea to create strong emotional impressions in
Yorùbá oral literature. Hyperbole is a language that consists of
linguistics resources employed by literary artists and one of the
most important stylistic features often employed by the Yorùbá
oral poets, during performance. The Yorùbá poets most of the time
take into consideration, the Yorùbá grammatical rules governing
the speech, nouns and usage among the Yorùbá people. The main
focus of this paper is to analyse hyperbole on how the Yorùbá
poets unfold their emotions about the happenings or events in the
society in such a way that they will arouse and sustain the interest
of the audience. The paper also discusses how conversations and
hyperbolic utterances convey messages to the audience with a
view to having the easiest understanding of the communication
motives.
The paper shows that social-cultural relationship
between the poet and the audience renders the hyperbolic
utterances meaningful and it also contributes to knowledge about
the effective use of hyperbole in the Yorùbá society.