A STUDY ON FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES USED IN SHORT STORIES WRITTEN BY O. HENRY

YATMA, RINA DWI (2015) A STUDY ON FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES USED IN SHORT STORIES WRITTEN BY O. HENRY. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Yatma, Rina Dwi. Student Registered Number.3213113135. 2015. A Study on Figurative Languages Used in Short Stories Written by O. Henry. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. States Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor, Nanik Sri rahayu M.Pd. Keyword: Short story, Figurative languages, Meaning, Message Language is a system of communication in speech and writing used by people of a particular country. Language has more function for us, not only to communicate verbally, but also to express our feeling and ideas about spirit and give a predetermined from to all its system expression. However, different form of language used in daily life, language in literatures has its own uniqueness. Language in literature are the result of processing and expression of individual author. One of the literature is a short story that used Figurative language. Short story is a story less than 10.000 words to give singular image and focus on one actor in a situation. One of the short stories that is familiar and a lot to read is O. Henry’s short stories. This study is directed to find kinds of figurative languages the meaning and the message delivered in this short stories. By understanding figurative languages, the readers can get better understanding on the short stories. The formulation of the research problems were: (1) what kinds of figurative language are used in short story written by O. Henry? (2) What are the meanings of figurative language in the short stories written by O. Henry? (3) What are the messages are convoyed in the short stories written by O. Henry? The purpose of the study were: (1) to know the kinds of figurative language that use in short story written by O. Henry. (2) To identify the meaning of figurative language used in the short story. (3) To understand the message of O. Henry’s short stories Research method in this study used, 1) Descriptive qualitative design because this study focuses on the analysis or interpretation of the written material in context. The writer used descriptive research, applying the way to describe the types of figurative languages, meaning and message that find in O. Henry’s short stories. Based on the source of the data, this study also categorized as library research. 2) The data of this research is all of figurative languages from the O. Henry Short story, meanwhile, source of data of this study was O. Henry’s short stories. To select O. Henry’s short stories the writer select based on the theme. 3) To collect the data the writer used documentation by collecting O. Henry’s short stories, reading the short stories, selecting O. Henry’s short stories based on the theme, and finding out all of the words, sentences, and phrases that containing figurative language, 4) and to analyzed the data the writer used some of steps, they are: Reading, Identification, classifying, analyzing, and making conclusion The result of this study are: 1) there are thirteen kinds of figurative language that found in O. Henry’s short stories there are rhetoric, asyndeton, litotes, metonymy, metaphor, repetition, ellipsis, aptronym, euphemism, personification, hyperbola, simile, and pleonasm. 2) Every kind of figurative language fondly the writer has different meaning based on the content the short stories, and the last 3) there are two kinds of message found in O. Henry’s short stories, there are moral and social messages.

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