B. Form, Context, and Source of Data
The object of this research is a novel entitled Coraline. Data in the qualitative research was not presented in the numerical form, but in the form of
words. The data were in the form of phrases, clauses, and sentences of the narration and utterances of all characters in Coraline novel. The context of the
data was in dialogues of the characters and paragraphs of the narration. Meanwhile, the data source is where the data are taken from. The novel of Neil
Gaiman, Coraline was the data source in this research.
C. Research Instrument
The main instrument for qualitative research method, typically, is the researcher itself. Burns 1994: 295 states that the role of researcher in the
qualitative research is as an instrument. The researcher has the key role in this research. The researcher will take an action as the planner, data collector, data
analyser, and data reporter. Meanwhile, the secondary instrument of this research was the data sheet. A data sheet was used to classify the data that it eased the
researcher to analyse the data from the novel. The data sheets are as follows.
Table 1. Example Data sheet of Types and Functions of Figures of Speech by Comparison in Coraline
Code Data
Figures of Speech by Comparison
Function of Figures
of Speech Explanation
Met Sim Per
Apo 1 2 3 4
01Sim 1
She looked like a thin
giant woman v
v This narration describes
when Coraline get out her bedroom and see a
strange thing in the hall of her house. She
compares the shape of that thing to a thin giant
woman with simile. The simile is represented by
the connector of ‗like‘. To Coraline that thing
looks skinny yet so big. This narration gives
imaginative pleasure of the shape of the strange
thing because it shows how Coraline imagine
the shape of the thing.
Note :
001 : Number of datum
1 : To give imaginative pleasure
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