Figurative Language Used in Novel The Angel of the Crows By Katherine Addison

Abstract

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. They were 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. Metaphor may enhance the story by employing a poetic element in the sentence to be used and aim to enable the reader to feel the emotions presented in the story so the reader will not be bored.