THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN NOVEL THE ANGEL OF THE CROWS BY KATHERINE ADDISON

Cindhy Kartika Sari.2022.THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED INNOVEL
THE ANGEL OF THE CROWS BY KATHERINE ADDISON. Final
Project, English Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts
Education, University of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Siti Nur’aini,
S.Pd., M.Hum., Ph.D., Advisor II: Indri Kustantinah, S.S, M.Hum.
Keywords:Figurative Language, Novel, The Angel of the Crows.
This article aims to research the novel The Angel of the Crows by
Katherine Addison and research the figurative language and the most dominant
figurative language in the novel The Angel of the Crows. This study focused on
examing the twelve kinds of figurative language in the novel The Angel of the
Crows by Katherine Addison. Theywere simile, metaphor, personification,
apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole,
understatement, and irony. This study intended to find out the kinds of the
figurative language and the dominant kind of the figurative language. The
researcher used the qualitative descriptive approach for data clustering, analyzed
the data to findings, and found this research conclusion. In short, The result the
simile 28,01%, the metaphor 33,15%, the personification 18,16%, the synecdoche
0,66%, the metonymy 3,50%, the symbol 0,98%, the allegory 1,64%, the paradox
1,57%, the hyperbole 7,22%, the understatement 0,55%, and the irony 3,94%. The
most dominant figurative language is metaphor and apostrophe, which is not
found in the novel. The use of metaphor in a story is to clarify and enunciate a
sentence. Perceptions of the metaphor make it easier for the reader to delve into
and interpret obejcts. The novel’s writer has used many metaphors in the story to
express a sense of interpretation through an emphasis on the impression to come.