Climax Epithet LITERATURE REVIEW

The example means the man is stupid because it used an expression of saying something through the contrary .

16. Metonymy

It is a figure of speech which can replace one thing to other things which are closely associated Baldick: 1996 . Sometimes it is used for describing an object through another object but they still closely related each other . Baldick 1996 also states that an important kind of metonymy is synecdoche . The examples are: 25 Pen is mightier than the sword means writing is more powerful than warfare . 26 The press replacement for journalism 27 Mozart for Mozart’s Music . 17 . Metaphor It is almost the same as metonymy but it describes an object through another object which have the same characteristic . Metaphor is a figure of speech that tries to describe one thing, idea or action through using another which have similar characteristics Baldick: 1996 . In another word, Harpham and Abrams 2000 argue that metaphor is a word or expression which represent one thing to a distinctly different kind of thing but without asserting any comparison . The examples for metaphor are : 28 John is a pig 29 O my love is a red, red rose 30 Eye, gazelle, delicate wander 18 . Onomatopoeia It also called as “echoism” by Harpham and Abrams 2000: 236 . People more likely know onomatopoeia as the imitation sound of object’s noises which heard similar to . In contradictory, Baldick 1996 reveals that onomatopoeia is the use of words or combination of words which seem to duplicate the sound they refer to . According to Harpham and Abrams 2000 there is no exact imitation of sound because the perceived similarity is due as much as to the meaning . The examples are: 31 People in the audience were hissing their disapproval . 32 She banged her first angrily on the table . 19 . Oxymoron It consists of two paradoxical contrary . It is usually “a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms in a compressed paradox” Baldick: 1996: 157 . It uses two contradictory words in a sentence to show any idea . It is cited in Harpaham and Abrams 2000 that oxymoron contains the paradoxical utterance that in ordinary usage are contraries . The examples for oxymoron are: 33 Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate O anything of nothing first create O heavy lightess, serious vanity 34 Mishappen chaos of well-seeming forms Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Still waking sleep, that is not what it is

20. Paradox

It is a surprising expression which cause people to look for another reason in which it would be true Baldick:1996 . It contains two opposite characteristics which is difficult to understand . Meanwhile, Harpham and Abrams 2000 declare that paradox is a statement which seems contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretable in a way that makes sense . Another book of Abrams 1993 tells that paradox is the “statement which seems on its face to be self-contradictory or absurd yet turns out to make good sense” . The examples are: 35 the child is the father of the man . 36 One short sleep past, we wake eternally . 37 The truest poetry is the feigning . 21 . Personification It is a thing which can act or express like human being . Thus based on Baldick 1996 thing which the imagery of an idea, abstract things or inanimate things which are referred as if they are human . It is called prosopopeia in Greek term which means the abstract concepts or inanimate things were given with all human characterization . The example for personification is: 38 Sky lowered, and muttering thunder, some sad drops . Wept at completing of the mortal sin .