Analysis of Language Style in the Novel “Hello” by Tere Liye: A Stylistic Review

Abstract

This research discusses language style or stylistics in the novel Hello by Tere Liye. Language style is the way the author expresses ideas or thoughts using words to produce literary works such as novels, poems, gurindam, and others. The aim is to determine how far and in what ways and how the author uses linguistic signs to obtain special effects. The problem examined in this study is how the language style or majas used by the author in the novel Hello by Tere Liye. The purpose of the research is to describe the stylistic analysis contained in the novel Hello by Tere Liye. The research approach uses a qualitative approach and the research method uses a qualitative descriptive method. The data and data source used in the research is the novel Hello by Tere Liye. The research data collection technique is a note technique in the form of words or sentences from the contents of the novel Hello. Data analysis techniques include data identification, data classification, data analysis and result conclusion. The research results of the novel Hello consist of several types of language styles, namely comparison language style, opposition language style, linking language style and repetition language style. The following is the interpretation of the research results of language style analysis in the novel Hello by Tere Liye, namely the comparison language style consists of several language styles, namely parable 4 data, metaphor 7 data, personification 8 data, opposition language style in the novel Hello is hyperbole 1 data, linking language style consists of metonimia 4 data, asidenton 12 data and repetition language style there is repetition with 12 data with a total of 48 data.