AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE NOVEL “EARTH” BY TERE LIYE

IGA, AYU MAWARNI (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE NOVEL “EARTH” BY TERE LIYE. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to find, classify, and determine the most dominant figurative language that appears in the novel „Earth‟ by Tere Liye and to analyze and explain the contextual meaning behind figurative language that was found in the novel itself. The method used in collecting the data related to the subject of this research was the documentation method because the writer collected the data from the novel. This study was conducted by collecting any relevant data and information about the topic or problem of the study from books and the internet that were available for the analysis. The data collection used the following steps: reading the full novel and then selecting the data that used the types of figurative language. The steps to analyze the data were identifying the types of figurative language according to Leech, identifying the contextual meaning of the figurative language according to Pateda, and the last interpreting the data. The writer found that there were 13 data of figurative language had been found by the writer and could be devided into: hyperbole with 2 data, metaphor 3 data, personification 2 data, simile 2 data, and followed by irony with merely 4 data as the rarely showed among 7 types. It could be indicated that the most dominant type of figurative language in the novel was irony. The author uses irony to explain circumstances, to describe the characters, to express the emotion of the characters, and to make his writing more vivid and entertaining. Keywords: figurative language, contextual meaning, novel.

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