Oral literature is delivered by word of mouth before an audience. This word of mouth medium presentation implies that oral literature makes its appeal first through the sound of words that reach the ears of the audience and only secondary through the meaning or logic examined in these words. The importance of this sound may be seen on the fact that even in the more intimate or limited types of oral performance such as divination poetry, the listener at least is expected to hear the texts being recited by the diviner to know clearly the way in which he is supposed to participate in the whole process. The aesthetic or beauty of oral literature can be seen in the style the artist uses. Such as: repetition, ideophones, digression imagery, allusion, symbolism and others. Repetition This is one of the most fundamental characteristic features of oral literature, it not only give a touch of beauty or aura quality to a piece of oral expression but serves certain practical purpose ...
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