Data Collection Technique Data Analysis
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process and the product of the research for consistency. Confirmability refers to the degree in which the researcher can demonstrate the neutrality of the research
interpretations by providing an audit trail. Transferability is about the findings are applicable to the new situation. Those four terms simply lead to one similar goal
to achieve, i.e. the condition of being able to be trusted ad to be accepted according to logical reasons.
The principles in trustworthiness were employed to gain objectivity of this descriptive-qualitative research, which was in some way considered to be
subjective since no quantified measurement were applied. A commonly employed technique to enhance this goal is triangulation. In general, there are four types of
triangulation. It can be data triangulation, theory triangulation, triangulation through multiple analyses, and method triangulation. In this research, the
researcher employed the first three types of triangulation. In this research, data triangulation was applied by using different sources
of data to be analyzed carefully and comprehensively, i.e. the poems itself and the lines. In addition, the researcher also applied triangulation by theories obtained
from various figurative language source books, and journals. The researcher applied the triangulation by asking another observer to verify the data and discuss
them to get the sufficient and reasonable interpretation. The first person is Suhaini M Saleh, M.A., a lecturer in the English Language and Literature Study Program
who has mastered the study which is relevant to this research, Stylistics. The second supervisor is Niken Anggraeni, M.A. who is also a lecturer in the same
31 study program. Besides the lecturers, the researcher also asked some of his friends
to triangulate the data. They were Niki Septi P and Imam Santoso. Both of them are the students of English Language and Literature study program.
Dependability is the substitution term of reliability in non-qualitative researches. In order to fulfill this criterion, the researcher read the data frequently
to understand the transference of meaning used in the poem and to make some interpretations. During this process, the researcher conducted relevant discussions
with other observers. Conformability is similar to what is called objectivity in non-qualitative
research. The researcher made some discussions with other friends who study linguistics and English literature to make a judgment whether this research was
objective or not.
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