Aneka Mei Triyana, 2250407004 (2011) FIGURES OF SPEECH IN ROBERT ALLEN’S TOKYO NO HANA. Under Graduates thesis, unnes.

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MEI TRIYANA, ANEKA. 2011. Figures of Speech in Robert Allen’s Tokyo No Hana. English Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts, Semarang State University. First advisor: Drs. Ahmad Sofwan, Ph.D., Second advisor: Drs. Suprapto, M.Hum. This final Project is meant to analyse the linguistic stylistic of Robert Allen’s novel entitled Tokyo No Hana, with the statements of problem “what kinds of figures of speech that are found in the novel and its analysis.” The objectives of this study are to find out the figures of speech that Robert Allen used to create the beautiful sentence in which to tell the plot of the story in his novel. In explaining kinds of the figures of speech found in the novel, the writer used stylistic approach with combining quantitative and qualitative methods. To collect the data the writer used quantitative analysis with six steps, they are reading the novel thoroughly, identifying, inventorying, classifying, selecting, and reporting, in which the results are in the form of the table of analysis. The results are 14 similes or 24.56% of whole text, 9 metaphor or 15.79%, 3 synecdoche or 5.26%, 6 hyperbole or 10.53%, 23 climax or 40.53%, and 2 oxymoron or 3.51%. The results are interpreted qualitatively to find the meaning of the use of figure of speech in the novel. The result shows that there are six types of figures of speech in the whole text. They are simile, metaphor, synecdoche, hyperbole, climax, and oxymoron. The figure of speech which is dominantly used in the novel is climax. So, it can be said that the author tells the story with the ideas arranged in ascending order of importance in order of increasing the importance of thing. He wants to show that several things in the novel are importance. In other words, the author emphasized the importance thing of a sentence by using climax in his writing. On the basis of the conclusions, several suggestions can be offered. First, by studying kinds of figures of speech the readers expected be able to know the objective value of a literary work. Second, by reading a literary work, the readers expected to pay attention to the author’s methods of linguistic study in which it is a technical knowledge in the literature. This might help them to see something more objectively in a literary work especially in Tokyo No Hana, in which they are helped to be more critical about the stylistic analysis.

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