การศึกษาการใช้ภาพพจน์ในนวนิยายจีน เรื่อง “กุหลาบแดงกับกุหลาบขาว”: การศึกษาการใช้ภาพพจน์ในนวนิยายจีน เรื่อง “กุหลาบแดงกับกุหลาบขาว”

Apinya Chomphichit

Authors

Apinya Chomphichit Chinese Major, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, Thailand

Keywords:

figures of speech, Chinese Novel, “Red Rose and White Rose”

Abstract

This article aimed to study figures of speech in the Chinese novel “Red Rose and White Rose”. This novel was a modern Chinese literature written by Zhang Ailing. The study methodology is to collect data from the Chinese novel “Red Rose and White Rose” and the study was analyzed using Duangjai Thaiauboon’s framework, that divided figures of speech into fourteen types. After that write the results in descriptive analytics.

The study found that figures of speech in the Chinese novel “Red Rose and White Rose” were categorized into seven types. (1) The simile was a figure of speech in which two things are compared in a way that indicates that a comparison is being made. (2) The metaphor was a comparison to reveal more detail and dominant features. (3) Hyperbole was a purposeful exaggeration. (4) An oxymoron was a combination of contradictory or incongruous words. (5) Onomatopoeia was a sound created by a living being, a non-living object. (6) A rhetorical question was a question that makes a point instead of seeking an answer. and (7) Analogy was a comparison by using proverbs and idioms.

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The Study of Figures of Speech in the Chinese Novel “Red Rose and White Rose”