Summary of Semantic

• Semantic: The study of meaning in language . It is the study of how are meaning in language is used on structured in sentence, word or phrase.

• These two components of meaning:

• Lexical meaning: meaning of the part(independenly): white, green

• Meaning of the combination: a white room

• Theory of linguistics

• Phonetic: Refer to the study of the production of speech sound. 
• Phonology: Study of sound pattern 
• Morphology: Study of word formation( Bond morphem, Free morphem) 
• Syntax: study of sentence structure. 
• Semantic: Study of meaning

• Lexical meaning: Dictionary meaning

• Synonymy: two words are synonymous if they have the same sense; that is, if they have the same values for all of their semantic features: happy: glad

• Antonym: two form with opposite meaning: quick –slow, big-small.

• Hyponymy: a word whose meaning contains the entire meaning of another: red, white, and blue : color

• Denotation: the meaning of a word which primarily refers to the real world: cow: shows a kind of animal

• Conotation: words become associated with certain characretistics of the items to which they refer : a bus can mean “be quick”

• Homophone: two or more different forms, which have the same pronounciation: bear; bare, meat-meet, flour-flower, pail-pale.

• Homonym: different words that are pronounced the same but they have different meanings: bear(pregnant), bear(tolerate)

• Polysemy: one form having multiple meaning are related by extension: head of glass and head of company.

• Ambiguity: sometimes, some sentences are ambiguous because they have both literal meaning and non-literal or metaphorical meaning. Dr. Jekyill is a butcher.

• Figurative meaning: a writer tools. It help the reader to visualize (see) what writer is thinking, it puts a picture in the reader mind, comparing thing with something else.

• Personification: the process of assigning human characteristics into non-human thing, abstraction or ideas: three is dancing 
• Simile: a direct comparison between things which are not particularly similar in this sentence,usually use: as like: I am hungry as a horse, she is happy as a clam. 
• Metaphor: a figure of speech which compares one thing to another directly: you are the moon in my heart. 
• Hyperbole: a figure of speech which employs exaggeration: your sound breaking the world. 
• Repetition: a figure of speech which repeats the word or phrase, and paragraph to clarify the meaning: my beloved mother, my beloved father. 
• Antithesis: a pair or more of strongly contrasting terms presented together: I am too young and then I am old enough. 
• Irony: a figure of speech, which has contrast meaning with the actual meaning: what a sweet coffee! Don’t you buy suger? 
• Paradox: a figurative language in the form of expression that has the contradiction statement: he is clever but stupid. 
• Litotes: the humble expression or contrast expression about the real condition: at my poor home look to be hold this night. 
• Synecdoche: the use of apart of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa: father buys a canary and a pigeon 
• Symbolism: a figure of speech in which an object, place, person, or experience means more than what it is: Flower is the symbol of women hood.