1861 How Do I Love Thee, the themes of reality lover can be presented as follows.
How do I love thee, let me count the ways I love thee to depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out the sight For the ends of being and ideal grace
I love thee to level of every day‟s Browning, 1806-1861 The author uses figures of speech in the form of hyperbole. The word I
love thee to level of every day‟s is used to reflect the themes in the poem since it can describe the reality theme of the lover. It means a very deep of love to hisher
lover. By employing hyperbole, the author runs the implicit theme that the love is everlasting. It also reflects that love to the lover is the central theme of
Browning‘s poem How Do I Love Thee. Thus, the use of figures of speech in reflecting the themes in creative works conjures up the reader to not to take the
literal meaning of the language, yet to look beyond what is said.
5. Television Series
Television series or TV-series is a creative work that contains content for broadcast on cable television or internet television. It produces a single production
which serves the audience‘s attraction. However, television series are divided into mini-series or serial, seasons or series with episodes, or one-time broadcast or
special episode. Along the times, there are many topics that are showed in television series, such as fictional dramas, comedies, crimes or non-fictional
documentaries, news, even reality shows. According to Allart and Gymnich 2005: 1, television series is replete with narrative forms and genres, such as
sitcom, action series, cartoon, soap opera, miniseries, advertisements, andor
documentaries. It is demonstrated that many narratological concepts can be applied to audiovisual media as medium to compose complex variety of
communication devices. Thus, nowadays, television series are used as a communication device which people enjoy to entertain and add more information.
It visualizes images and sounds audiovisual. Moreover, Allart and Gymnich 2005: 7 states that television series create
creative language to shape the audience‘s perception with influential figures. From the passage above, it can be assumed that television series are able to play
prominent role for the audiences by applying creative language. In other words, television series are
designed to shape human‘s perception. Also, it can visualize the idea with the creative language in order to shape comprehension of
information and issue.
6. Sherlock Holmes TV-Series The Final Problem Episode
Sherlock Holmes is one of the famous British TV-Series around the world broadcast by BBC-One Channel. Adapted from the work of Sir Conan Arthur
Doyle‘s detective series, Sherlock Holmes TV-Series reflect a new born of the modern life of Sherlock Holmes that had been re-written by Steven Moffat and
Mark Gatiss as script-writers. Furthermore, it is a huge television series which produced thirteen episodes with four part series airing in 2010, 2012, 2014, and
2017, and one special episode airing on January 1
st
, 2016. Each of the episodes has 90 minutes duration.
Figure 1: The Poster of Sherlock Holmes TV-Series Season Four
This television series starred Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and his partner Doctor John Watson starred Martin Freeman. It aired in BBC
network as the co-production. It filmed in Cardiff, Wales, with North Gower Street in London used for Holmes and Watson‘s 221B Baker Street residence.
Many awards also nominated for this television series, such as BAFTAs, Emmys, and a Golden Globe. It is not a big surprise that this television series won three
categories at the 66
th
Primetime Emmy Awards. In addition, this television series was also honored with Peabody Award which became the most watched drama
series in UK and sold to 180 territories. Sherlock Holmes TV-Series is set in the present day while the special
features a Victorian period fantasy which is similar with the original Sherlock Holmes stories. The story depicts the life of Sherlock Holmes who named himself
as consulting detective and his partner Doctor John Watson who has returned from military service in Afghanistan with the Royal Army Medical Corps to solve
crime cases. They shared same flat on 221B Baker Streets to live and solve the
mysterious case as partner. Moreover, the flat is owned by land lady named Mrs. Hudson. In the story
, Sherlock Holmes has a brother who named Mycroft Holmes.
However, this research only uses the last episode taken from season four entitled The Final Problem. This episode is directed by Benjamin Caron and
written by both Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss which originally aired on January 15
th
2017. It is the climax of all the stories in which all the secret and the mystery solved. Moreover, this is the next episode after two previous episodes, each of
which has been aired on January 1
st
and 8
th
, 2017 entitled The Six Thatcher and The Lying Detective.
The last episode of Sherlock Holmes TV-Series introduces Eurus Holmes as the new character to complete the puzzle in this television series. She is the
younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. Moreover, the story begins with Sherlock and Dr. Watson who tricked Mycroft to know the existence of Eurus
Holmes. Then, the secret about Eurus Holmes has been revealed. This episode contains puzzle from Eurus to test the emotional context of Sherlock, Watson, and
Mycroft. However, the ending of the episode is portrait of message of Mary Watson and it is a happy ending story.
B. Previous Studies
There are some great previous researches conducted to study style in language. They scrutinized and analyzed the use of figures of speech, how
particular types of figures of speech are applied in creative works, how particular types of figures of speech can employ certain function to be a medium in
delivering ideas, and how the use of certain figures of speech reflects the themes
