An Analysis of Figurative Language Elements upon an American Short Story Entitled “The Monkey’s Paw

Abstract

This article describes the study of semantic in a specified domain of figurative language upon a selected work of American English literature, in form of short story written by the renowned writer and author, William Wymark Jacobs, entitled as ‘The Monkey’s Paw’. Several objectives are deduced by the researcher in quest of finding the forms of this figurative language within the passage. Briefly, figurative language itself is a feature of every languages, which emphasized the use of expression to symbolize a different meaning from the usual literal interpretation. In our analysis of ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, the varieties of figurative language: Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Symbolism, also another terms used to represent unusual words construction or combination such as Onomatopoeia, Idiom, and even Imagery, are discussed in order in relation with true meaning discovery behind each figurative language properties.

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“…She found 23 figurative language, based on Gorys Keraf theory. Similarly, Mandarani and Ardiansyah (2020), there are some figurative languages in American short story, such as symbolism, hyperbole, personification, and metaphor. There are also unexpected word constructions, such as idiom, imagery, and onomatopoeia.…”

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“…Studies about hyperbole have been done previously by several research. Articles from McCarthy and Carter (2004) entitled "There's Million of Them": Hyperbola in Everyday Conversation, Ardiansyah and Mandarani (2018) entitled An Analysis of Figurative Language Elements upon an American Short Story Entitled "The Monkey's Paw", Huang (2020) entitled Hyperboles in Advertising: A Serial Mediation of Incongruity and Humour, Setiawati and Maryani (2018) entitled An Analysis of Figurative Language in Taylor Swift's Song Lyrics, and Wibisono and Widodo (2019) entitled An Analysis of Figurative Language in Online Short Story Posted on the Jakarta Post have researched the similar topic of hyperbole. These research focus on hyperbole that used in many fields.…”