Metaphors in the Novel of And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini using a Stylistic Analysis

Inike Tesiana Putri, Widyastuti Purbani

2018

Abstract

In communicating, every person has different language style each other. It depends on the background knowledge about language. The language style in the terms of literature study is stylistics. People who writes the literary work usually uses the figure of speech in their work to arise the aesthetic and artistic functions. There are many kinds of figure of speech, but the most common use the figure of speech is metaphor. Metaphor is an expression which compares one thing to another thing. Metaphor is not only used in learning material, but also metaphor is a phenomenon which can be found in daily conversation such as in a speech, language learning and another condition related to language competence. Metaphor is an essential device to make better sense in the conversation or writing, strengthen the effect of the idea which is conveyed to others or to get the beautiful sense of it. The aims of this paper to analyze the kinds of metaphor and its meaning based on the novel. It can be alternative device to learn metaphor by using the novel. Usually the English language teachers analyze the figurative language especially metaphor by using the text book. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The technique of the data used reading and noting.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Putri I. and Purbani W. (2018). Metaphors in the Novel of And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini using a Stylistic Analysis. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 44-52. DOI: 10.5220/0008217200002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Inike Tesiana Putri and Widyastuti Purbani},
title={Metaphors in the Novel of And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini using a Stylistic Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={44-52},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008217200002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - Metaphors in the Novel of And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini using a Stylistic Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Putri I.
AU - Purbani W.
PY - 2018
SP - 44
EP - 52
DO - 10.5220/0008217200002284