AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR AND SIMILE IN NOVEL A LITTLE PRINCESS BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Samila, Bunga Zahra and Hasan, Diana Chitra (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR AND SIMILE IN NOVEL A LITTLE PRINCESS BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

Metaphor and simile are types of figurative language.This study aims to analyzes the type of metaphor and simile in novel A Little Princess. Metaphor and simile have types includes full metaphor, full simile, abbreviated metaphor and abbreviated simile. And this study also analyzes the type of meaning according to Leech: conceptual meaning,connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning, collocative meaning and thematic meaning.This study uses a qualitative approach, and the writer use content analysis methods.Based on the data analysis, it was be found that there are 2 types of metaphors and similes full metaphor,full simile, abbreviated metaphor and abbreviated simile and also each type has its own meaning there are conceptual meaning,connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning,reflected meaning, collocative meaning and thematic meaning. From these data it was found that out of 50 data there were specifications of 9 full metaphors, 25 full similes, 2 abbreviated metaphors and 14 abbreviated similes. In the data found, many connotative and conceptual meanings are interpreted in each meaning of the data. The writer after specifying, identifying, classifying and analyzing all the data the writer concluded that the novel entitled “A Little Princess” was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett use of metaphors and similes. In this analysis, the writer takes two steps, first to identify the types of metaphors and similes that appear in the text novel, and the last one explains the meaning of the metaphors and similes that occur in the story novel.

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