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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Research
Literature is one of studies there are influential to human’s life. Literature is
one way or human beings to express their feeling, thoughts, experiences, emotions,
expectations, and faith. Literature does not have limitation on how you should do
it. The people can express literature through many ways e.g. story, prose, and
drama or play. Literature is the literary product of art, and the language used in
literature is the language which is attractive for reader though sometimes it needs
relatively long time to understand but it usually attracts people for its beauty
(Louis, 2009:1). Literary language uses deeper language and different than the use
of language in everyday activities. Figure language owned by a person is part of
the diction closely related to those expressions individual or characteristic, or has
high artistic value.
Jones (1968:1) states literature divided into two groups. They are Literature
of knowledge and literature (informative) as entertaining or literature of power
(Imaginative). The writer of imaginative language uses figurative language in
their writing. It provides the feelings and thoughts. Figurative language is words
or expressions that carry more than their literal meaning (Stanford, 2003:48). An
author conveys a different way to express and describe something likes idea,
theme, and author’s feeling. The author uses the situation and condition of fact.
The author use language to write the literary work. It can make the reader in
positive effect. Figurative language is also used to make the words or phrases be
more beautiful, more interesting, and make more clear the image. Hyperbole,
metaphor, simile, personification, and irony are kinds of figurative language that
use figures of speech. Figurative Language is not only used in poem, but also in
lyrics, poetries, and screenplays or movie script.
Movie is the entertainment for the people. Most the people have watched
the movies. There are many kinds of movie; they are horror, romantic, action, and
