Abstract:
Sa’idu
Faru is one of the prominent court singers in Hausa land. He composed quite
several songs and one of such is the one titled Waƙar
Mamman Sarkin Kudu. This song, like many other songs, is characterized by
different figures of speech. These figures of speech are normally employed to
showcase one’s mastery of a language on one hand and to achieve a certain
literary effect on the other. One of the prominent figures of speech is
metaphor. This paper aims to extract metaphorical expressions in this song and
examine the role they play in the performance of the song and in aiding to
convey the message contained in the song to the audience. The version of the
song used is the one in the appendix of a PhD thesis by Magaji Tsoho Yakawada
(2002) and the analysis is a literary stylistic study. The analysis reveals
that many metaphorical expressions are contained in the song and most of them
are through a direct comparison of the person being praised (the patron) or his
opponents with some animals in an attempt to reveal some special attributes of
either the former or the latter as the case may be.
Keywords:
Court
Singers, Praise Songs, Figures of Speech, Metaphorical Expressions
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i03.061
author/Adamu
Shede, Ph.D
journal/Conference Proceedings | November 2024 | Article 61
