PROVERB AND RIDDLE, PERIBAHASA DAN TEKA-TEKI

1. PROVERB (PRIBAHASA)
PROVERB atau dikenal dengan istilah pribahasa merupakan ayat atau kumpulan kata
mempunyai susunan tetap, mengandung pengertian tertentu berisi saran-saran positif

 Kinds of Proverbs:
1.      Aphorism (Pepatah)
This proverb offers advice.
Example                        : Don’t go too far in small.
(Persoalan kecil jangan dibesar-besarkan).
2.   Parable (Perumpamaan)
That has a moral lesson and has parable.
Example                       : To carry coals to New-castle.
(Bagai membuang garam kelaut)
3.   Slogan (Pameo)
This proverb gives spirit or motivation.
Example                       :
1.      Early bird gets worm
(Tuhan akan memberikan rezeki kepada makhluk-Nya yang lebih dulu bangun)
2.      Diligence is the mistress of success.
(Kerajinan pangkal kesuksesan)
4.   Idiom
Idiom adalah kelompok kata yang dirangkai dengan susunan tertentu dimana artinya tidak
dapat ditebak dari arti kata-kata penyusunnya secara terpisah.
Example :
1.      Pull your sock up. (improve your behaviour)
2.      You can arrange your bedroom at will. (sesuka hati)
3.      Don’t mention it. (You’re welcome) 
2. RIDDLE (TEKA-TEKI)
          RIDDLE adalah jenis puisi yang menggambarkan sesuatu tanpa benar-benar
penamaan apa itu, meninggalkan pembaca untuk menebak.
Teka-teki bisa apa saja, dari teka-teki tentang binatang sampai tentang obyek. Tidak ada
aturan tentang bagaimana struktur sebuah puisi teka-teki, teka-teki bisa lucu atau dapat sajak,
itu tergantung pada orang yang menulis teka-teki.

Riddle :

      1. What building has the most stories?  An eye

      2.   What is broken every time it’s spoken? Smoke
      3.   What four letter word can be read upside down, downside up, and up to
down? Tomorrow
      4.   What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the
evening?” Night falls and day breaks
      5.   What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? A river
      6.   I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still
hold water. What am I? A man, since he crawls as a child then walks and uses a cane when he
gets older.
     7.   What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never
weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? Library

Riddle Poems

I.       The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And
the end of every place.
-The Guess Book  (c. 1820)
          Answer : The letter e
II.     There is one that has a head without an eye, And there’s one that has an eye without a
head. You may find the answer if you try;
And when all is said,
Half the answer hangs upon a thread.
-Christina Rossetti
          Answer : Pins and needles
III.      We are little airy Creatures,
All of diff’rent Voice and Features, One of us in Glass is set,
One of us you’ll find in Jet, T’other you may see in Tin, And the fourth a Box within, If the
fifth you should pursue It can never fly from you.
-Jonathan Swift
          Answer : Vowels
IV.     At the back of every Igloo, And the middle of the Moon,
Always running around in Loops you’ll find me, If you look inside the Room.
What am I?
          Answer : oo
V.       Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
          Answer : Wind
VI.     Alive without breath, As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail, never clinking.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
          Answer : Fish
VII.     He has no feet, yet travels far;
literate, but no scholar he;
no mouth, yet he clearly speaks. If you know him, you are wise.
-Subhasitaratnabhandagara  (Sanskrit riddle poem)
          Answer : A letter