Analysis of Personification and Its Meaning Found in Victor Hugo Poems
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v3i1.5176Abstract
Figurative language often used in literary works, especially poems. It beautifies the language used in the poems. This study discusses about one of figurative types, that is personification, with is meaning found in Victor Hugo Poems. Personification is found mostly in the poems. There are two theories used in the study. The first is the theory of figurative language from Knickerbocker and Reninger (1974), and the second is the theory of meaning by Leech (1974) to analyze the meaning of figurative language. The method used in this study is a qualitative method. The researcher found 6 data of personification. Meanwhile for the meaning that the data have are categorized as conceptual meaning and connotative meaning.
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