Use of Figures of Speech in Kurukh Folk Oral and Written Literature: An Stylistic Study

Abstract

Every community has developed and refined its variations according to its own cultural environment. They have incorporated unique aesthetic flavours and linguistic beauty into them. Human language is enriched with all those skills which in poetics we refer to as figures of speech symbols and other such elements. These naturally existing artistic qualities of human language are use both in folk songs and in the poetic compositions of classical literature. This research paper studies figures of speech related to Kurukh literature, describing its stylistics devices. Kurukh language is spoken mostly by the Oraon community of Jharkhand Odisa and Chhatisgarh. This community holds a rich literary heritage which is expressed through folk songs, myths, proverbs, rituals, and contemporary writings. The research paper examines major figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, symbolism, personification, repetition, and investigates their functional role in forming meaning, cultural identity.

Keywords: Kurukh, Oraon, stylistics, oral tradition, figures of speech, indigenous literature