An Analysis of Reference on Grammatical Cohesion Found In Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories

Abstract

Cohesion is a linking medium that holds some events and ideas together within a text that gives its meaning. In means that cohesion is necessary in terms of communication since it is a part of language system[1]. Cohesion does not only occur in communication between people but also occur in communicating ideas through literary work such as short story. The five short stories (1) The Black Cat, (2) The Tell-Tale Heart, (3) The Masque Of Red Death, (4) The Cash Of Amontillado and (5) Hop Frog Or The Eight Chained Ourang - Outangs by Edgar Allan Poe [2] are interesting subjects to be researched since they show cohesion in those five short stories. There are three types of reference; personal, demonstrative, and comparative[1] which become the theory used in this analysis. In this study, the writer examines the types of reference and the most dominant reference that were found in Edgar Allan Poe short stories.