Stylistics Review of Related Theories

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

The object of this study is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The tittle of the work is The Tell-Tale Heart published in 1843. It first appeared in the inaugural issue of the Boston magazine, The Pioneer. Though this story is favorite with today’s readers, The Tell-Tale Heart was rejected the first time Poe tried to publish it. The linguistic element that the writer will analyze is an adverbial phrase. An adverbial phrase may be in form of a word or a phrase. The adverb might modify other part of speech such as verb, adjective, or even another adverb. However, the most common part of speech that adverbs modify is verb. Adverbs may be optional in matter of use in a sentence. They are often omitted by some writers to make their sentences shorter. Even though adverbs are optional, they can still give significance when they are used in completing a sentence because adverbs add some details to the sentence. Thus, the writer here is trying to explain the significance of the adverbs in story. In the story, there are a lot of adverbial phrases used. It is because the author has unique and dark way of writing. This style of writing appeals to emotion and drama. This style makes the readers invited to the environment and situation of the story. This later will be proved by analyzing the significance and distribution of adverbial phrases that the author used. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

B. Approach of the Study

In order to identify the distribution of adverbial phrases and the significance of them to the story, the writer used stylistic approach. Stylistics is the study of style in language. Leech states that “literary stylistics has, implicitly or explicitly, the goal of explaining the relation between language and artistic function ” 1981: 13. Thus, stylistics can be used to identify the linguistic expression and description to find out why the author here describe his story in this certain way. This approach is used to analyze the data from the short story. The data is the adverbial phrases in the short story. Foregrounding and representation theory