Yudha, Mu'amar and Sabat, Yulianto and Musyarofah, Lailatul (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES USED IN NOVEL JOHN GREEN “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS”. Repositori STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Figurative language is not interpreted in a literal sense. figurative language has a new meaning in looking at the world and thinking more imagination. Objectives of the study to describe types of figurative language and identify contextual meaning figurative language in John Green’s Novel “The Fault in our Star”. This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The result showed they were 82 figurative languages in this novel, the researcher have found 7 kinds of figurative language consisted of 12 hyperbole, 5 irony, 5 litotes, 16 metaphor, 15 metonymy, 12 personification, and 17 simile. The most dominant figurative languages used is a simile as many as 17. All of the figurative language used in “The Fault in Our Stars” made to be descriptive, understandable and imaginable. Some figurative in this novel were used to describe something funny, serious, or unpredictable. Figurative language can be concluded to have an important role in this novel. therefore the author uses so many sentences contained in figurative language in the novel. Using figurative language makes novels more interesting to read, and really helps the reader to imagine stories, characters based on illustrations given by the author in the story of the novel.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Figurative Language, Novel “The Fault in Our Star” |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Divisions: | Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Muamar Yudha E |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2019 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2019 10:40 |
| URI: | https://repository.stkippgri-sidoarjo.ac.id/id/eprint/385 |
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