63 common noun. Furthermore, the phrase just another car company was an
explication of what precedes it Quirk et al., 1985. Another finding was Fed Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Slowdown.
This headline had a noun phrase and an adjective phrase followed with a prepositional phrase separated with a colon. Fed Forecast was a noun phrase. Fed
was an abbreviation for Federal Reserve. It was categorized as a proper noun because it labeled a specific organization name. Forecast was a noun.
Furthermore, Cloudy With a Chance of Slowdown was an adjective phrase followed with a prepositional phrase. Cloudy was an adjective. With a Chance of
Slowdown was the prepositional phrase which consisted of a preposition and a
noun phrase. With was a preposition and a chance of slowdown was a noun phrase. The last one was India Should be Bigger Than It Appear. The headline
used should. Should was one of the modal verbs. It expressed advisability. Additionally, it was identified that the modal verb should was followed by the
simple of verb, namely be.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter V presents the conclusions of the research which answer the two research questions stated in Chapter I. The research questions are formulated from
the definition of headline. The analysis of types of figurative language comes from the point of view of attractiveness in the headline. Meanwhile, the analysis
of syntactic features comes from the point of view of the concise structure in the headline. Besides, the researcher presents the recommendations related to the
future research and current practice.
A. Conclusions
As stated in Chapter I, the research aims to find out the types of figurative language and the syntactic features used in the opinion column headlines of The
Wall Street Journal . Based on the analyses, the researcher concludes that the types
of figurative language used in opinion column headlines of WSJ were metonymy, teasing, hyperbole, irony, repetition of sound consisting of alliteration and
consonance, and idiomatic expression. Parallelism was not identified in the headlines.
The second research question is about the syntactic features used in the opinion column headlines of WSJ. The types of noun phrase found in the opinion
column headlines of WSJ were a noun phrase with premodification, a noun phrase with postmodification, and a noun phrase with both of premodification and
postmodification, and a noun as the head only,. Besides noun phrases, the
