FINDING THE SIMILE IN THE SHORT STORY THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL BY OSCAR WILDE

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1 FINDING THE SIMILE IN THE SHORT STORY THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL BY OSCAR WILDE Yuli Mutia 1 ), Armilia Riza, M.Pd 2 ), Hevriani Sevrika, M.Pd 3) 1 )English Department, STKIP PGRI Padang,Gunung Pangilun moetya_90@rocketmail.com 2 )English Department, STKIP PGRI Padang, Gunung Pangilun rizaridwan23@gmail.com 3 )English Department, STKIP PGRI Padang, Gunung Pangilun sevrikariecha@gmail.com ABSTRACT This research w about analysis of simile in The Fisherman and His Soul short story. The researcher wanted to investigate whether all of the sentences which used simile s marked ( and ) were simile or not. This w decriptive research. The researcher used the short story itself the source of data. In collecting the data, the researcher read the short story to analyzed the data. Bed on the research, the researcher concluded there were 15 sentences which used marked and 9 sentences which used marked. In short, sentences that using and were involved in simile. The short story gave the distinguishing between two different things but had the same meaning. Penelitian ini adalah tentang analisis baha kian simile yang ditemukan di dalam cerita pendek The Fisherman and His Soul. Malah utama dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah semua kalimat yang menggunakan penanda di dalam simile seperti dan yang ditemukan di dalam cerita pendek tersebut apakah termuk simile. Sumber utama data penelitian dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif yang merancang dalam deskriptif. Peneliti menggunakan sumber utama yaitu teks cerita pendek itu sendiri. Metode pengumpulan data adalah dengan analisis isi dengan membaca. Berdarkan penelitian ini, peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa dalam menganalisis karya stra, terutama cerita pendek The Fisherman and His Soul, peneliti menggunakan beberapa simile yang menggunakan penanda sebanyak (15) kalimat dan penanda sebanyak (9) kalimat. Berdarkan hil analisis ini, penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa kalimat yang menggunakan kata penghubung dan yang ditemukan di dalam cerita pendek ini adalah merupakan simile. Cerita pendek ini memilih untuk memberikan penekanan pada kalimat dan membandingkan pernyataan informatif dengan memberikan atribut perbandingan antara dua hal yang sangat berbeda tetapi mempunyai makna yang sama. Key Words: Simile, Short story, The Fisherman and His Soul, Oscar Wilde. INTRODUCTION Figurative language is typically uses to add the aesthetic and the beauty of the work. Figurative language actually use in literary work which not use the literal meaning, but use the figurative language itself in context to attend the connotation (the emotional and imagination of author s word). Furthermore, Spivey (2011, p.336) explains that We use figurative language to describe an object, person, or situation by comparing it to or with something else. It means the authors use the figurative language in the her/she work to describe the object, someone, or situation by comparing with something other by using the figurative language to make other sense, aesthetic and feel. There are many types of figurative language that can be analyzed. The types are simile, metaphor, personification, synecdoche, metonymy and alegory. Simile is a comparison two un things in which a word of comparison or is used. Metaphor is a comparison of two un things in which no word of comparison or is used. Personification consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept. Synechdoche the use of the part for the whole and metonymy the use of something closely related for the thing actually mean are a in both subtitute 1

2 some significant detail or respect of an experience for the experience itself. Allegory is a narrative or description that h a second meaning beneath the surface. Therefore, the researcher interested to analyze a kind of figurative language of simile. Spivey (2011) says, A simile (sim-uh-lee) uses the words or to compare two explicitly un things being similar. It means, the simile belongs to a kind of figurative language which is comparing the two things very different by signing connecting words and. Simile is interested to analyze, because the simile is comparing the two things where both of them have different clses. Simile served to deepen the meaning of the word that the writers use in his/her work. Using the simile the writer creates his/her literary works concrete, and interesting. Simile is often finding by the reader when the reader read the novel, short story or others literary works. Moreover, the writer urges readers to interpret the language used in the reading. Appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the new world. Figurative language especially simile with its compatible terms forces the reader to attend to the connotations (the emotional and imaginative of words) rather than the denotations (the literal meaning). In other word, simile makes other sense in the short story such the readers have other world when they read it. According to Spivey (2011, p.336), the example of simile are: Mom is busy a bee paints a mental picture of Mom swarming around a bee when she s busy. Our old cat moves around molses in wintertime means that the cat moves around thick, slow-moving molses. Furthermore, the object of research, this one of the example of simile used taken from short story The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde: Her hair w a wet fleece of gold, and each separate hair a thread of fine gold in a cup of gls. Comparison are shown in the dialog above is Her hair is equated with wet fleece of gold. And each separated hair is equated with a thread of fine gold in a cup of gls.the purpose of simile in that short story to give information about author idea, emotion, and visual field and to make interest in literary work. Other example, Her body w white ivory. This dialog shown the comparison Her body is equated with white ivory. This simile in that short story have purpose to give information about author s idea, emotion, and visual field and to make interest in literary work. The readers sometimes found the difficulty in reading the literary books when the kinds of figuratives language found on it, they have to figure it out what the meaning of the figurative language used because it is the language that h more than one meaning and produced from creative imagination. A short story is, in some ways, a photograph- a captured moment of time that is crystalline, though sometimes mysterious, arresting, though perhaps delicate while a photo may or may not suggest consequences, a short story always does. In the story's moment of time something important, something irrevocable h occurred. The change may be subtle or real, but it is definite and definitive. According to Klarer (2004,p12), Short story is a conscise from of prose fiction, h received less attention from literary scholars then novel. Short story is one of kinds of literary work that usually uses figurative language to support the story which can give different feels and atmospher in the short story than non literary book. In this ce, the researcher is interested to analyze the simile in the short story The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde where in this short story mostly use a kind figurative language of simile to express the author s idea, feeling, and emotion in order to more clearly understand by the researcher in particular and the reader in general. Moreover, simile is a kind of figurative language which used in short story. It can give others feel, sense and atmosphere in the story. According to Knapp (2005, p.54) explains, a simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between one thing and another, usually in a phre beginning with, or. It means, simile is used by author to deliver his imagination with make comparison one thing with another different and use some marker such and. In addition, Granger (2008, p.128) states, A simile can be defined a figurative expression used to make an explicit comparison of two un things by means of the prepositions, ()... or the conjucntions, if, though. But, in the general phenomenon in simile just often using the connective word of and. Similes are wellknown figures of speech and are ey to recognize beacuse of their explicit markers and the kind of comparisons they make. The Granger shall illustrate the application of preposition/marker in simile to this example, Ruth dropped a stone into the 2

3 armchair. The dropped followed by stone. Drop a stone means a sudden or a quick fall or move down. In this example comparing the Ruth belongs to a human and the stone is belongs to a thing. In here is using marker/connective word of to compare it them. Therefore, the simile used make the comparison is clear each other. As the researcher stated before, the researcher wanted to analyze simile in short story. It meant that the researcher should talk about short story. Short story is a form of prose fiction. Short story is shorter than novel. According to Harlen (2016), short story is brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. It means, the short story is brievity, no longer than novel. Furthermore, Gelpi (2007, p. 3) states, a short story present a specific pect of life or of conduct by using a single plot, few characters, and generally, a short period of time and quick ending. In the short story contains short of story which conducted by single plot, it never have more plot. The short story h some characters that are same, and have shorter period. Thats, the reader can finish to read the short story in short time. In conclusion, short story is a form of fiction conveyed briefly. Short story h structures that can make the readers be eily understanding the intent that delivers by the author in short story. Actually, the short story begins with a short explanation that provides the reader with background information. The information generally includes the setting, introduces the main character, sets the scene for the action, and sometimes creates the bic atmosphere of the story. And the lt, short story h short period of time for reader to finish read the story. In making more understand about what is short story, in this segment the researcher explains about some elements of short story. According to Roberts (1999, p.53), there are some important elements of short story. Those are first, character. A character may be defined a verbal representation of a human being. Second, setting. Setting is a work s natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal environment, including everything that characters know and own. Third, plot. Stories and plays are made up mostly of actions or incidents that follow each other in chronological order. Next, point of view. The term point of view refers to the speaker, narrator, persona, or voice created by authors to tell stories, present arguments, and express attitudes and judgments. Lt, idea or theme. The word idea refers to the result or results of particular, general, and abstract thinking. Bed on explanation above, we can conclude that the short story have some elements. First, plot showing about what happened in the story, then the authors/writers arrange the material in structural. Second, characters is the person who act in the story. Third, Setting is not only describe about the place, but also can showing the times. Fourth, point of view refers to the speaker, narrator, persona, or voice created by authors to tell stories, present arguments, and express attitudes and judgments. The lt, Idea or theme are concept, thought, opinion, and principle of the author s abstrack thinking of. RESEARCH METHOD The aim of this research w to study the phenomenon of simile in the short story The Fisherman and His Soul. It w clsified into a descriptive research because the data were taken from a short story. Descriptive research is a research that tries to present the problem clearly bed on the accurate data. Kothari (2004,p.37) explains that Descriptive research studies are those studies which are concerned with describing the characteristics of a particular individual, or of a group, where diagnostic research studies determine the frequency with which something occurs or its sociation with something else. In this research, the researcher used the short story The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde the source of data. In collected the data, researcher read, selected by highlighted the data, then collected data and make the categories. The data used in this research w in the text data, therefore the researcher analyze the important elements in the text data. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzes the data to answer the research question and get the result of this research. Related to the Sudaryanto explanation, one to help the researcher clsifies the data is equalizing technique (1993, p.27) Through this technique, the data would be grouped related to the form of the theories through the equalizing technique that is equalize between all the data substance. RESEARCH FINDINGS After presented and analyzed the data, the researcher found there are two marker/connective words of simile found in the short story The Fisherman and His Soul. After the researcher read that short story text, then took the data and clsified them bed on the forms of simile. 3

4 Table. 1. Findings No. Monologs Connective Words 1. Her hair w a wet fleece of gold 2. Each separate hair a thread of fine gold in a cup of gls 3. Her body w white ivory 4...and sea-shells were her ears 5. Her lips were seacoral 6. The fish dart about silver birds 7. They are the bets of the field 8. Their days are the days of flowers 9. Its juice is white milk 10. At midnight the witches came flying through the air bats 11. His lips were a proud red flower 12. The people went to and fro over the plain flies crawling upon a disk of polished copper 13. The gay lanterns of paper flutter large butterflies 14. They rise and fall painted bubbles do 15. Its odour it burned w the odour of the pink almond in spring 16. Most of them sell the wine of Schiraz, whic is sweet honey 17. Only a little door the door of a tomb 18. Like a slim reed of crystal a fountain hung in the dusky air 19. The cypress-trees were burnt-out torches 20. The man writhed a trampled snake 21. Both wine-coloured and coloured grs 22. They moved over the carpet little white pigeons 23. Her notrils are shaped the wings of a swallow 24. The white foam moaned a leper Simile is important in the literature, because it can incree aesthetic and artistic value in literary work. Spivey (2011) says, A simile (sim-uh-lee) uses the words or to compare two explicitly un things being similar. In this short story there were the sentences which used two markers/connective words ( and ) where those sentences belong to simile. Proved and presence of the simile become more interesting to read and study. In addition to the entertainment factor and research, it also adds to the short story in style of language knowledge. The language usage w also the language used in daily life, but using the different sense. Hence, simile can also provide a sense of the style. Bed in the researcher finding above, the researcher found two forms of simile in that short story text. The two forms of simile that in mark and. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Bed on finding already discussed is the previous chapter, the researcher pointed out the conclusion. The simile signed by connective word/ marker and. The sentence which used the connective word were (15) sentences and the sentence used the connective word were (9) sentences. Thus sentences belongs to a simile. From this research, the researcher hopes that this research can be a beginning reference for the following researcher. Then, the researcher also suggests the further researcher to study more about figurative language of simile in different opinion and ways in the analysis, and perception. For the students, they can learn more about figurative language of simile with using literary work itself. Also for the readers, the researcher hopes they would not be confused about the figurative language of simile used in another literary works. So, from this research the readers have an alignment about the figurative language of simile. 4

5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To complete this thesis, the researcher h obtained a plentiful guidance, help, advices, and constructive critics from many people. In this occion, the researcher would have to extend his special gratitude and very special thanks and appreciation are given from the deepest of his heart to the advisors, Armilia Riza, M.Pd and Hevriani Sevrika, M.Pd, who have been kinds and willing to give their times, opinions, and supports in completing this thesis. REFERENCES Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier Phreology: An InterdisciplinaryPerspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Klarer, Mario An Introduction to Literary Studies. London, New York: Routledge. Knapp, Peter and Megan Watkins Genre, Text, Grammar. Sydney : National Library of Australia. Sudaryanto, Metode dan Aneka Teknik Analisis Baha. Yogyakarta: Duta Wacana University Press. Spivey, Becky L Handy Handouts. retrieved on 17 th, August