The Imagery in Niew Klom’s Essays

Abstract

The research article aims to analyze the imagery, including visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile images in the Niew Klom’s essays by studying the collection of Niew Klom’s essays, 6 volumes, totaling 215 topics, with a purposive sampling method. The research found that the imagery in the Niew Klom’s essays can be divided into two types: physical imagery and mental imagery. For physical imagery, Niew Klom employed the five senses.  Visual imagery has four aspects: action imagery, state imagery, light imagery, and color imagery. Auditory imagery has three aspects: onomatopoeia, laughter, and melodiousness. Olfactory imagery has two aspects: aromatic and foul-smelling. Gustatory imagery has three aspects: sweet, bitter, and tasteless. Finally, tactile imagery consists of four aspects: a sense of comfort, a sense of warmth, a sense of cold, and a sense of physical exhaustion. The imagery that occurs mentally can be divided into three types: happiness imagery, encouraging imagery, and suffering imagery. The uses of language to create imagery in Niew Klom’s essays found are three types: puns found are one word reduplications, phrasal reduplication and paradox. Sound plays found are consonance and assonance. The figures of speech found are simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and onomatopoeia.