FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS ON THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMA SCRIPT BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Abstract

Thisstudy deals with types of figurative language and its meaning in the drama entitled The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. The objectives of the study were to find out the types of figurative language then describe the meanings and find the dominantly of figurative languages found in drama entitled The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to collect the data. The data was analysed through Keraf (2009) that the three phases include data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification. The source of the data was taken from the book by William Shakespeare entitled The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The finding of the research showed some types of figurative language used in drama entitled The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and there were 5 types of figurative language found in the drama. The details were as follows: personification (4), simile (3), metaphor (5), hyperbole (3), irony (2). And figurative language type which dominantly appeared was metaphor, with five total of statements.