Abstract:
This research was conducted with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of
the biblical text, in this case the book of Proverbs. Given the diversity of texts that are
currently worked in the teaching of Portuguese language, consider proposing more interesting
this genre, presenting it as draft analysis of this form of speech. The study was conducted by
observing figures of speech, specifically metaphor, metonymy, personification and
metaphorical comparisons found in this work. For the corpus, we selected the first five verses
of each chapter, this total, choose those with figures and started the analysis. We chose to do
rhetorical analysis considering the content of the messages appealing. The process of analysis
was done comparing the commonalities in order to help students understand, identify and
interpret the message figuratively, between the literal and figurative meaning of a particular
proverb. Remember that figures such disregard for analysis, those words whose meaning,
despite seeming to demonstrate connotative content, has ceased to have that semantic load
placed on the use and the consequent wear and use this figure. It was evident that the content
of the messages proverbial is timeless, ie, one can apply the advice that make this book until
the present day, without running the risk of becoming anachronistic or commit semantic
inconsistency.
