An Analysis of Similarities of Figures of Speech in the Novel The Wicked King by Holly Black. Moreover, there is a similarity in the function of object in the similarity between images, so students should be careful in identifying and applying these images. Therefore, it is important to learn the similarities of figures of speech to increase the students' skill so that the student can understand the text of figures and help them produce good writing products.
The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of simile of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King and describe the dominant type of simile of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King. The result of this research showed that there are six types of simile of figures of speech in the novel The Wicked King, they are simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification and kenning. As a result, metaphor is the dominant type of simile of figures of speech that appear the most in the novel The Wicked King with the number of 44 data with a percentage of 26.3%.
Title: An analysis of the similarity of figures of speech in Holly Black's novel The Wicked King. Judul Skripsi: An Analysis of the Similarity of Speech Figures in Holly Black's Novel The Wicked King.
INTRODUCTION
- Statement of the Problem
- Research Focus
- Objectives of the Study
- Significances of the Study
- Research Studies
- Research Methods
- Research Design
- Data Sources
- Technique of Data Collection
- Technique of Data Analysis
- Organization of the Study
The existence of stylistic elements especially in imagery in the novel The Wicked King is interesting to be studied further. Therefore, the author was interested in doing a research entitled "An Analysis of Resemblance of Figures of Speech in the Novel The Wicked King by Holly Black". What are the types of similes used in the novel The Wicked King.
What is the dominant type of simile of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King. This research is also concerned with the dominant type of similarity of the figures of speech used in the novel. Find out the simile types of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King.
Find out the dominant type of simile of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King. The novel will be examined to find the presence of the similarity of figures of speech with those used by the author in the novel. Then, the novel will be analyzed from the point of view of the similarity of the types of figures of speech.
This chapter provides an analysis of data on the percentage and predominant type of similarity of the figures of speech used in the novel The Evil King.
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Figurative Language
As in literature, adding figurative language to a literary text will provide aesthetic value that can enhance one's emotions through the text. Figurative language is included in the linguistic structure in which there is syntax, phonology, morphology and literal semantics.5 Figurative language refers to words and groups of words that exaggerate or change the usual meaning in figures of speech of the constituent words. . Figurative language are words that carry suggestive or symbolic meaning beyond the literal level.6 Meanwhile, Dancygier and Sweetser stated that figurative language is thought to be related to an aspect of what gives a text in expressing the idea in a particular language and a text poetic - special aesthetic. value.7.
Since it makes it easier for people to communicate with each other, figurative language is an essential part of literature. Besides, when someone uses a figurative word when they speak, it indicates that they don't mean what they say literally. Speakers and writers can use figurative language to express a variety of meanings in various ways.
Abrams argued that figurative language is a striking departure from what users of a language consider the standard meaning of words, or else the standard order of words, to achieve a special meaning or effect. Figures are sometimes described as primarily poetic, but they are integral to the functioning of language and indispensable to all forms of discourse. Figures of thought, or figures of speech (meaning 'alter conversions'), in which words or phrases are used in a way that produces a noticeable change in what we take to be their standard meaning.
The standard meaning, as opposed to its meaning in figurative usage, is called the literal meaning. Figures of speech, is the use of language mainly through the arrangement of their words to achieve special effects, and not through a radical change in the meaning of the words themselves. Figurative speech, in which the deviation from standard usage is not primarily in the meaning of the words, but in the order or syntactic pattern of the words. 10.
Resemblance of Figures of Speech
Novel
- Definition of Novel
- Novel Elements
Dominant data is obtained by a thorough calculation of the results of classification of expressions containing imagery. It is expected that the results of this study will provide a reference in study and improve the understanding of the use of figures of speech, especially similarities with figures of speech. It specifically devotes to the types of politeness strategies applied and similarities of the indirectness in politeness strategies in requesting actions.
The title of the research is "An Analysis of Figurative Language in the Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Khosseini". The aims of this research study are to give a better understanding to analyze the sentence and the meaning of the novel for the public.11. The result of this research showed that (1) George Orwell used four types of understatement of figures of speech in his novel titled Animal Farm. 2) The predominant types of understatement of figures of speech in the novel Animal Farm is irony.
The title of the research is "A Perceptual Phonetic Similarity Space for Languages: Evidence from Five Native Language Listener Groups". A similarity matrix of the grouping patterns was then subjected to clustering and multidimensional scaling analyses. In the documentation, most available data is in the form of letters, diaries, souvenirs, reports and so on.
The main characteristic of this data is that it is not limited by space and time, so it gives space to researchers to discover things that happened in the past.16 In obtaining research data through documentation, it will be reading and analyzing the novel to find similar figures of speech types. It is almost entirely written field notes, transcribing interviews, documents and other empirical material. In the phase of this research, the researcher collected the data from reading the text that has similarities with the figures of speech.
The researcher then categorized the results of the data from each identifying the similarity between figures of speech found in the novel The Wicked King consisting of simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification and kenning. To facilitate the discussion of this thesis, the author provides the organization of the thesis. One of the things that must be considered when writing a novel is to formulate the building elements of the novel correctly and systematically.
Waluyo Herman, Pengkajian Cerita Fiksi (Surakarta: UNS Press) the author's descriptions of that person. However, external elements are quite influential (not to say: quite decisive) in the totality of the resulting story.
TYPES OF RESEMBLANCE OF FIGURES OF SPEECH USED
Discussions
In this part, the researcher describes the descriptions of each similarity of figures of speech found in the novel. In this discussion, the researcher will include several samples that he took from his findings after analyzing the figure of speech in the novel. Like a simile, a metaphor is a figure of speech that also compares something that is similar.
THE DOMINANT TYPE OF SIMILARITY OF SPEECH FIGURES USED IN THE NOVEL THE WICKED KING. The following table provides detailed information about the total data of similarity of figures of speech found in the novel The Wicked King. Results of the dominant type of similarity of figures of speech in the novel The Wicked King.
Based on the research, it has been found that there are many similarities of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King from chapter 1 to chapter 10. These are the similarities of figures of speech, namely simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification and kenning. Based on Table 4.1, the total of all figures of speech used in the novel is 167.
Metaphor is the dominant type of simile between figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King. The researcher has focused on chapters 1 to 10 from the novel The Wicked King to analyze the existence of similarities between figures of speech. There are 6 types of similes between figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King which are: simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification and kenning.
The predominant type of similitude of figures of speech used in the novel The Wicked King is metaphor. After analyzing and discussing the result about the similarity of figures of speech in the novel The Wicked King by Holly Black, the researcher wants to rank some suggestions. Students need to think more deeply about figures of speech that have almost the same characteristics (similarity).
This research is expected to help students learn more deeply about the meaning of the similarity between figures of speech, including the characteristics of each figure of speech. Then, this research is expected to provide information on the characteristics of similarity between figures of speech.
THE DOMINANT TYPES OF RESEMBLANCE OF FIGURES OF