MIFTAHUS SA’ADAH: “An Analysis of Figurative Language in Stories for
Thinking Children I by Harun Yahya”.
This thesis is conducted to analyze figurative language in Stories for
Thinking Children I by Harun Yahya. Learning about language cannot be separate
from learning figurative language especially, when read English stories, novel,
and poem because, in stories usually found some types of figurative language that
used by author. Learning figurative language is not an easy. Every language has
literature and figurative language, stories book no exception. In the book of
Stories for Thinking Children I many education values that good for the reader
especially, children. Therefore, the researcher chooses this book to analyze about
figurative language and to understand about stories, the reader must learn about
figurative language in order, to easier understanding the stories. This way,
hopefully, would be useful for teachers, and parents, especially, the reader of
these stories.
The purposes of the research are: the first, to find out types of figurative
languages. The second is, to find out the message of figurative language in the
stories. And the last is to find out types of figurative language are most frequently
used by the author in Stories for Thinking Children I by Harun Yahya.
The method of the research of this thesis is content analysis or document
analysis. The object of the research in this thesis is the book of Stories for
Thinking Children I by Harun Yahya. The researcher only analyzes 10 stories in
the book of Stories for Thinking Children I by Harun Yahya that selected by
random. The instrument of the research in this thesis is researcher herself. The
techniques collecting data in this research are observation and study
documentation. The aim of observation and study documentation are in order to
find out the secondary data. Such as: books, official document, article, journal,
and daily notes to support this research.
After the researcher analyze the book of Stories for Thinking Children I
with the primary and secondary data as the source of data the resercher found
some 4 types of figurative language. They are: Allegory, Synecdoche,
Personification, Allusion, Imagery, and Assonance. There are also some messages
in figurative language as described in chapter 4. In the story book the researcher
found 1 of Allegory with percentage 10%, 1 of Synecdoche with percentage 10%,
1 of Personification with percentage 10%, 1 of Allusion with percentage 10%, 5
of Imagery with percentage 50%, and the last 1 of Assonance with percentage
10%, in Stories for Thinking Children I. From the explanation above can be
concluded that Imagery is type of figurative language that most frequently used in
the stories with the total 5 or 50
