Verbal metaphor in the Disney cartoons

This thesis aims to analyze the verbal metaphor in Disney cartoons. This study uses verbal that said by the characters of the cartoon movie, including word, phrase, clause, and sentence. It means the word, phrase, clause, and sentence that have non-literal meaning based on the context of the cartoon movie. The researcher answers three research questions 1) what is the verbal metaphor in the scenes of the Disney cartoons. 2) what is the literal and metaphorical meaning in the Disney cartoons based on the context. 3) what is the frequency of metaphors in the scenes of Disney cartoons. This study uses two methods qualitative and quantification. Qualitative method is used for explaining the verbal that said by the characters in the cartoon movie, including word, phrase, clause, and sentence. The qualitative method also used for interpreting the meaning of verbal metaphor based on the context in the Disney cartoon. This study is also used quantification for counting the metaphor, which contains in every Disney cartoon. This study uses the frequency of the metaphor which contain in the cartoon movie. It proves the cartoon movies that are dominant in the Disney cartoon that were analyzed. The frequency also knows about the effect of the movie that has some metaphor. The data of this research are word, phrase, clause, and sentence that have non-literal meaning based on the context in the Disney cartoon. Then, the data are interpreted based on the context of the cartoon movie. The data is analyzed being the new meaning that called non- literal meaning.The data present the verbal metaphors which the Disney cartoon movie. The data are presented, including word, phrase, clause, or sentence. The verbal metaphors of words are up, melon, ice. The verbal metaphors of phrases are the crazy city, depth emotion, eye in the sky. The verbal metaphors of sentences are the sky awake, and you are not off. The number data of this research are 75, including3 data of Finding dory,20 data of Bolt,10 data of Frozen,15 data of Toy story, and 27 data of Zootopia data including word, phrase, clause, or sentence. It is presented based on the context of the movie. The whole data were shown that the Zootopia movie has most of the metaphorical meaning of this study. It means the characters of that cartoon movie are often use the word, phrase, clause, and sentence that have non-literal meaning based on the context of the Disney cartoon movie