AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN PERCY JACKSON: THE OLYMPIANS NOVEL BY RICK RIORDAN

Abstract

One of the important things in human life is the language as human being cannot separate themselves from involvement of social communication and interaction. According to Antilla in Lakoff and Johnson’s [1] language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by which the members of a speech community cooperate and they communicate using by language. Metaphor as a linguistic device is common figure of speech in human language, Lakoff and Johnson [1] defined metaphor as the expression of understanding of one concept in terms of another concept, where there is similarity or correlation between the two. Metaphor can be found in the sentences in the movie language, song, poetry, novel and other objects. Sometimes language is colored with metaphor and we use metaphor when we find it difficult to describe all meanings or a experience because metaphor is a figurative language that describes somethings without a direct comparison with a very deep meaning. According to Gibbs [2] metaphor is a comparison between two terms that is one sentence to other sentences to explore the nature of one. In this research the writer want to find the types of metaphor used and meanings of metaphor in the in Percy Jackson: The Olympians novel.