The Stylistic Analysis On Hamzah Puad Ilyas' Short Story Mother's Hair

The research aimed at achieving comprehensive understanding regarding the use of figure of speech in building the theme of short story Mother�s Hair by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas on Jakarta Post. It isues content analysis method which concerns in the effort of extracting and interpreting the theme containing in the passages. The verbal data collected from the story are analyzed qualitatively based on figure of speech and any theory or approaches. The research is performed in several phases. The phases are as follow: deciding the unit analysis is used within this research is short story Mother�s Hair by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas which contains figure of speech; collecting the data from many sources such as book, internet, and others which relates to the research; presenting the data figure of speech as corpus data; analyzing the problem, which then classified into the data examination, figure of speech meaning analysis, and its contribution of determination; making conclusion and suggestion. As result of analysis performed, the writer concludes that the use of figure of speech in short story gives the constribution on the theme building. Furthermore, the six kinds of figure of speech analyzed in the research are personification, simile, metaphor, metonymy, and hyperbole. The contribution of figure of speech describes the story conveying and the message delivering as clear as those as visual means can do. The writer hopes that readers will know about the study of Linguistics and its branches. Readers have to know the branches of Linguistics, aspecially the study of Stylistic. Readers are suggested not only to know literal meaning, but also know nonliteral meaning reading literary wor