expression is an expression of language, such metaphor, by which the literal meaning of word is not employed”.
In the way to make an interaction with the society, people write books. The writers, of course, are using some beautiful words and sentences to make their
books more interesting. Figurative speech is one of the most ways that using by the writers.
Novel is the kind of the books which using many figurative language to make the story more interesting and avoid from the lack of words. The sentence ‘I
feel just like in heaven’ in Millionaire to the Rescue cannot translate that the character ‘I’ really is in heaven. ‘I feel just like in heaven’ is a simile. ‘Like’
means as if the character is in the heaven and ‘heaven’ used to describe ‘good place or beautiful feeling’ not ‘the truly heaven’
Since figurative meaning may brings difficulties in understanding the idea of the books, it might be useful to give an explanation about it. This is the reason
for choosing the topic “The Analysis of Figurative Expression in Alley Blake’s Millionaire to the Rescue” of this thesis.
1.2 The Problem of Analysis
Based on the background above, the writer discusses the problems of the analysis as follows:
1. Are figurative expressions found in the novel Millionaire to the Rescue?
2. What types of the figurative expressions are found in the novel Millionaire
to the Rescue?
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3. Which type of the figurative expressions in dominantly occurs in the novel
Millionaire to the Rescue as the data for investigating? analyzed in percentage
1.3 The Objectives of the Analysis
The objectives of this analysis are: 1.
To find out figurative expressions found in the novel Millionaire to the Rescue.
2. To find out how many types at figurative expressions in the novel
Millionaire to the Rescue. 3.
To find out which type of figurative expressions occurs dominantly in the novel Millionaire to the Rescue.
1.4 The Scope of Analysis
A scope needs to be set to avoid misdirection in this thesis. The writer wants to focus about figurative expressions in the novel Millionaire to the Rescue
by Alley Blake. Related to the figurative expressions, she wants to analyze seven figurative expressions, they are metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole,
irony, and oxymoron.
1.5 The Significance of the Analysis
The significances of this thesis are to add and enrich the reader’s knowledge and understand about semantics terms, especially about figurative
expressions and help them to interpret the text to understand the real meaning. In addition, this thesis will be significant for the readers especially those who want to
know how to use of figurative expressions in a literary work.
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1.6 Review of Related Literature
In doing this thesis, the writer uses some books related to this study. The followings are among other books related to figurative language which are used to
revive related literature. Daniel 1967 in his book A Contemporary Rhetoric says “A choice of
words even a choice between two close synonyms, can be understood without much difficulty as a choice between more and less relevant meaning”.
Keraf 1981 in his book Diksi dan Gaya Bahasa discussed about the word choice and the style of language, especially about figurative language or non
literal meaning such as metaphor, hyperbole, personification, metonymy, and so on.
Palmer 1976:1 in his book Semantics: A New Outline says “Semantics is the technical term used to refer to the study of meaning”. The book dealt with
many issues about semantics, like the term, the scope, kind of meaning, sense and reference, linguistic and non linguistics context, and so on.
Saleh 2008 in his thesis A Semantics Analysis of Figurative Expression in Ernest Hemingway the Old Man and the Sea found that from 67 data, they are
20 cases for personification as the dominant kind of figurative expression. This thesis uses descriptive method, which has similarities with this thesis and helps
the writer how to analyze the problem. Sinulingga 2007 in her thesis “The Semantic Analysis of Non Literal
Meaning in the Selected Song Lyrics of Evanescence” found that there are 63 cases of non literal meaning in those songs. They are; hyperbole with 48 cases,
personification with 12 cases, simile with 2 cases, and synecdoche with 1 case.
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This thesis also helps the writer to analyze the problem in my thsesis after reading this book and thesis, the writer has the conclusion that this thesis has been
discussed before. It gives us the facts that figurative expression is very important in esthetic speak. Not as complement of language, but to make a more beautiful
language in daily time and conversation.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL OF FRAMEWORK
