An Analysis Of The Use Of Hyponym In The Novel Hell’s Corner By David Baldacci

Abstract

This research deals with the types of hyponym in the novel Hell’s Corner By David Baldacci. The objectives of this research were to find out the types of hyponym used in the novel The Hell’s Corner By David Baldachi and to find out why hyponym were used in the novel Hell’s Corner By David Baldachi. This research was conducted by descriptive qualitative content analysis. The data were the sentences in 9 chapter of Hell’s Corner novel. Finding of the research show that there were types of hyponym in the novel Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci ; there were noun, verb and adjective, and the reason to use hyponym were : In Hell’s Corner novel by David Baldacci systematic the use of hyponymy in the sentences was to create text that appeared semantically richer and literally had become more meaningful. By using language with lower-order hyponyms it meant that the words used be came more concrete and specific each word carried more information.Each sentence in the novel gives much more information to the readers, even though each sentence used no additional words. The difference arises from the use of hyponyms (a special set of synonyms) in which the meaning of the more specific word includes the meaning of the more general words. Clearly, lower order hyponym adds significantly the descriptive and emotive power of the language. to discover how this technique could improve writing skill.