Family is a very important social unit in any person’s life. Many proverbs are concerning family as a very strong bond. The basis of the family is concerned to be a unit of one man with one woman. (Lucas 2015).
Family has certain roles in the society. Parents have to educate and bring up their children, keep them safe from any evilness, show the right path and be at their side no matter the circumstances (Clifford 1999). Children, on the other hand supposed to listen, learn and obey their parents (Treier 2011). Family’s primary role is to build the foundation of loving and caring relationship and to spread the wisdom and good teaching among the children. It is also important for the families to cultivate traditions so that family members could
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“Since proverbs reflect human experiences of all types, they are bound to contradict each other just as life is made up of a multitude of contradictions.” (Litovkina & Mieder 2006: 2). Proverbs gain their real meaning only by contextualisation and during the normal conversation, they are not contractionary at all and have a full meaning both to the speaker and the listener. (Mieder 2004)
2.4. Stylistic devices in proverbs
Proverbs like any other form of utterances can contain certain stylistic or poetic devices. Those devices are usually called external markers. However there are also some internal features that enrich proverbs and make them more effective (Mieder 2004). External markers include: [...] alliteration: "Practice makes perfect” "Forgive and forget,” and "Every law has a loophole”; parallelism: ”Ill got, ill spent," “Nothing ventured, nothing gained,” and "Easy come, easy go”; rhyme: "A little pot is soon hot,” "There 's many a slip between the cup and the lip," and “When the cat 's away, the mice will play”; and ellipsis: "More haste, less speed,” "Once bitten, twice shy,” and "Deeds, not words." (Mieder op. cit.: