(Department of French, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2016-06-11) Adeagbo, Tunde John; Oladeji, Funmilayo Femi; Akande, Abosede Olubukola
77?fe work establishes the relationship between literature and The
Holy Bible. The work makes use of the three types of metaphor as
discovered by Chandler (2002): structural, orientational and
ontological as concepts of semiotics in order to analyse some
popular Bible verses. Twelve different verses were picked for
textual analyses from The Holy Bible. At the concluding part, it
was agreed that the three types of metaphors sometimes co-present
in a single metaphorical element. The paper therefore recommends
the knowledge of literature and literaiy analyses among others for
anyone aspiring to be a priest.