ANALISIS BAHASA KIASAN DALAM NOVEL "THE SECRET HISTORY" OLEH DONNA TARTT

Liqoriah Nurul Qur’ani. Analysis of Figurative Language in “The Secret History” Novel by Donna Tart (supervised by Ayub Khan and Ainun Fatimah)

This research delves into the use of figurative language in Donna Tartt's novel, The Secret History. In Donna Tartt's novel, The Secret History, figurative language creates vivid images with a special effect, potentially adding depth to written or verbal communications.

The theory that the author used in this research was from Colston (2015), who classified figurative language into six types: metaphor, idioms, hyperbole, verbal irony, indirect request, and contextual expression. The author's goal for this research was to identify and categorize the figurative language in the novel, and then present the dominant type based on this classification.

The research findings reveal six types of Colston theory in this novel: metaphor (46%), idioms (22%), hyperbole (15%), indirect requests (9%), verbal irony (7%), and contextual expression (1%). All this data leads to the conclusion that metaphor is the dominant type in this book, accounting for 46% of the figurative language data.