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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses about background of study, reason for choosing the topic, statements of the problems, objectives of the study, significance of the study, and
the outline of the study. Below are more detailed descriptions.
1.1 General Background of the Study
Nowadays reading is one of hobbies which have a great vogue by people. Some libraries with so many books are already available in every town in this country to
facilitate people who want to read. They can read general book to get information, such as newspaper, magazine, education books, etc, and the literary works such as
novel, short stories, poetry, play script, etc. Reading is also a subject in the study. It is one of courses in education field
as Mason and Krashen in C. L. Gagné, and E. J. Shoben 1997:71 said that
read the education books to get information about the lesson
We shall aim to interpret the principles and methods of linguistic study in a way that demands relatively little technical knowledge. Reader who are
familiar with some basic concepts and traditional terms in grammar, phonetics, and rhetoric will, we hope, find themselves at home in this
book, and even readers new to language study should have little difficulty if they follow up occasional explanations and references given
in the notes.
Therefore, in this case we must study stylistic. The purpose of stylistic analysis in literary studies is to understand and interpret the text. The process of the analysis
will reveal good or not the qualities of writings. With stylistic, we aim to explain how the words of a text create the feelings and responses that we get when we
read them. Stylistic is study of style that is the main thing of any writings in literary works. So, we must know the subject of style to make more understanding
an explicit understanding of language as Geoffrey Leech, and Michael H. Shorf 1981:1 says,
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
Most people usually read literary works just to understand what the content of them. For example reading a novel, they just want to know the plot of the story,
who the characters are, what the conflict is, whether it is sad or happy ending, and so on. They do nott realize that in any literary works there is a tone of the story, a
way of writing and mode of expression. They convey the author
1.3.2 What kinds of figures of speech are dominantly used by Robert Allen in
his novel Tokyo No Hana and its Analysis?
1.4 Objectives of the Problem
