Metaphor in “Novel The Crown’s Game” written by Evelyn Skye based on systemic functional linguistic

Mutia, Dinda (2018) Metaphor in “Novel The Crown’s Game” written by Evelyn Skye based on systemic functional linguistic. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discusses about Metaphor in Novel The Crown’s Game Written by Evelyn Skye Based on Systemic Functional Linguistic. The research obejectives are to describe the use of metaphor, the types of metaphor used in the novel and to describe the reason of the use of metaphor. This research uses qualitative descriptive. The data is analyzed by using content analysis. In order to analyze the data, the researcher analyzes the data based on Systemic Functional Lingusitic, distinguishes the metaphor category, analyzes the meaning, coding and conclude all the result. The result of the research shows that there are 191 clauses belong to metaphor. From the total, there are 158 clauses belongs to lexical metaphor with percentage 82,72%. Then, for grammatical metaphor, there are 33 clauses with percentage 17,28%. There are 27 clauses belongs to ideational metaphor, this category with percentage 14,14%. For interpersonal 6 clauses with percentage 3,14%. First for mood there are 2 clauses with percentage 1.05% and second for modality there are 4 clauses with percentage 2,09%. The dominant type of metaphor used in the novel is lexical metaphor. The reason why metaphor used in the novel is to express writer’s opinion through language simply or more complicated.

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