Technique of Data Analysis

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. 39

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.