F. Trustworthiness
A research must be truthful and accurately represented the subject or the object of the research. Due to this, there is validity term which is extent to which
it gives the correct answer of the problem brought by the research Kirk Miller, 1986: 19. Qualitative research usually has limited knowledge of subject or object
of the research. However, it is forced to show accurate result and could represent that small participant. To achieve that point, triangulation is needed in the
research method. This research use triangulation of descriptive qualitative approach in analysing figures of speech by comparison.
It means that the researcher tried to be non-judgemental and attempted to report what was found objective. To be more reliable, the data findings were
checked by students of English Language and Literature study program whose concentration package is linguistics. They are Wildan Bilal Al-Qudsy and Riusly
Pratomo. On the other hand, the researcher also asked some prominent lecturers as reviewers to confirm the data collected. The researcher asked lecturers of English
Language and Literature in UNY, Titik Sudartinah, M.A. and Niken Anggraeni, M.A, as the resercher‘s first and second supervisors who are competent and expert
in this study. They facilitate the researcher to understand the kinds of figures of speech by comparison and how figures of speech by comparison were applied in
this study. In this case, the lecturers were suitable for the researcher to criticize the process of the collected data analysis and to hold discussion to emphasize the
collected data to be valid.
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents the findings and discussion of the research. As stated in the background of the research, this research is aimed to find out the types of
figures of speech by comparison and to describe the functions of using figures of speech by comparison in Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This chapter focuses on
explaining the results of this research in two parts; i.e. the findings and the discussion based on the research objectives. The findings are presented in the
table of data finding that consists of the types of figures of speech by comparison and the functions of figures of speech by comparison found in Coraline.
Meanwhile, the discussion part defines the objectives of the research which are applied in the Neil Gaiman‘s novel Coraline.
A. Findings
In this section, the answers to the research questions are presented in a table of data findings and followed by its brief description. The table of data
findings of the types of figures of speech by comparison and the functions of figures of speech by comparison found in Coraline are presented below.