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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The second chapter presents the theories underlying the topic of the study. This chapter consists of two subchapters. The first subchapter discusses about review
of previous studies. Then, the second subchapter presents review of theoretical background.
2.1 Review of the Previous Studies
In the stylistic field, there have been a number of researches focussed on style in short story. One of the studies is conducted by Rokhmaniati 2001 entitled An
Analysis of The Moral values and Style found in Ed Wallace’s short story ‘A Case of Suspicion and Its Contribution to Extensive Reading Material for Senior High
School Students. She analyzes about style and moral values in short story and its
contribution to extensive reading for senior high school students. In doing this analysis, she explains it in several steps, the first is reading, then the next step is
observing the moral values, analyzing the sentences structure, diction and figure of speech and the last step is listing down some consideration of the story as an
extensive reading material. She uses descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The second review of previous studies related to style analysis is conducted
by Istikomah 2003 entitled An Analysis of The Style Used in Oscar Wilde’s Story ‘The Fisherman and His Soul’
. The study has an objective, that is to find the style of the short story includes sentence structure, diction and figures of speech.
She classifies the whole sentences in each paragraph based on the complexity of sentences. She also classifies the writer’s choices of words in expressing his idea.
Then, she tries to find out the use of figure of speech such as personification, irony, metaphor.
Furthemore, there is a study carried on by Cleant 2009 entitled A Stylistic Analysis of O. Henry’s The Furnished Room
. He analyzes about stylistic analysis of O.Henry’s short story. This paper is aimed to analyze some stylistic features to
make analysis of O.Henry particular writing style and its specific. The study concerns in linguistic presentation in short story. The O.Henry’s writing style in
this story has been represented by selected lexical features, syntactic features, phonological features and surprise ending. There are some research findings
related to O.Henry’s style writing. Simple and compound sentences are well constructed and also completed with another O.Henry’s characteristic, surprise
ending. After looking for and reading all of the previous studies, I find that those
studies are related to my topic: O.Henry’s writing style. In order to complete the previous studies, I conduct the two short stories analysis at the same time. The
reason for choosing the short stories is to make the research more convincing.
2.2 Review of the Theoretical Background
