mark of Athena to avenge her mother, Athena. It will lead her to a statue of Athena which will help them to reunite Greek and Roman.
In this novel, the author uses figurative languages to make the story alive and more entertaining so that the readers do not get bored while reading the
novel. These figurative languages can also help the readers to imagine the story so the readers can understand what the story tells about.
4.1 Finding of Figurative Language on Novel Entitled “
The Heroes of Olympics, Book Three: The Mark of Athena
” Written by Rick Riordan
Table 4.1 Summary of Figurative Language occured in the novel
Types of Figurative Language
Frequency Percentage
Personification 18
19.4 Simile
52 55.9
Metaphor 6
6.4 Hyperbole
16 17.2
Metonymy 1
1.1
Total 93
100
Table 4.1 above describes the summary of the figurative language which occured in the novel entitled
The Heroes of Olympics, Book Three: The Mark of Athena
written by Rick Riordan. There are 93 sentences that used figurative language in the novel. From
the table above we can see that simile is the most frequent type of figurative language used in the novel. The total number of simile is 52 or 55.9. The
second type of figurative language is personification with a total number of 18
or 19.4. There is also hyperbole category with 16 items or 17.2, metaphor category with 6 items or 6.4, and metonymy category with 1 items or 1.1.
However, the researcher didn‘t find litotes, oxymoron and irony in the novel.
In the novel, the author mostly used figurative language to describe the situation or the setting of the story, to describe what the characters look like,
and to describe the character‘s feelings, so the reader can imagine what the
character looks like, what expression the character make when they are angry, sad, etc., what the situation or the setting of a place where the story happens
look, etc.
4.2 The Discussion of the Finding
This section discusses the analysis of types of figurative language and the contextual meaning of each figurative language. The explanation is described
below. There are 93 sentences that used figurative language found in in the novel
entitled
The Heroes of Olympics, Book Three: The Mark of Athena
written by Rick Riordan. The researcher only took six sentences for each type of
figurative language as the data representative to be described in this section. For metonymy, the researcher only gave one sentence for each type as the data
representative. These figurative languages were listed and classified based on Leech‘s theory about the types of figurative language.
