E-7: THE APPLIED PATTERNS OF ENGLISH PROVERB (A DESCRIPTIVE STYLISTIC STUDY)

Abstract

Proverbs are Words of Wisdom, uttered traditionally, expressing some perceived truth based on common sense or Human Experiences. Proverbs bears Ironic and Metaphorical Nature and are used in Formulaic Structure of Languge. This unique Genre of Folklore enhances the Wisdom Literature. As Proverbs are the Lamps of Speech and are Strategies to deal with the Situations, that is why, for them, it is necessary to have a memorizable Sentence Structures. Studies have proven that almost all Languages of the world possess a large variety of Proverbs and all these Languages have tried to adopte catchy patterns applied to a stuff of Proverbs.  These Identified Patterns give a very attractive status to proverbs which make them memorizable and then Retrievable on the occasions when needed. For example (No Guts no Glory) and (No Pain no Gain) etc fits to the formulaic Form of "No X no Y". Such like (Better be Safe than Sorry) and (Better be late than never) etc adopted the Pattern of "Better be X than Y" Another advantage of Structural Patterns adopted by numerous Proverbs is that there is a Possibility of new born Proverbs following the structure of the bona fide ones. For Instance: The Proverb (Where there is a well there is a way) was easily followed by (Where there is a Star, there is a Scandle) The aim of this Article is to provide a general overview of the unique Architecture of English Poroverbs across of some Catchy Patterns which, deals with the Communicable quality indebted to the production of new born Proverbs.