Suraya, Ikrimah (2010) An Analysis of Degree of Comparison in George Eliot’s Novel “Silas Marner : Weaver of Raveloe”. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Ikrimah Suraya, 2010, An Analysis of Degree of Comparison in George Eliot’s Novel “Silas Marner : Weaver of Raveloe”. Thesis, English Department, Islamic Education Faculty. Advisors : (I) Drs. Saadillah, M.Pd. (II) M. Nur Effendi, S.Ag., SS.,M.Pd.I. This research is done based on consideration that reading English novel is an extremely important for students who study English language. Novel, as a kind of literary works gives the readers more knowledge about the country where the story taking place, the culture and of course the language it self. This research is aimed to give an explanation bout the content of novel “Silas Marner : Weaver of Raveloe”, to describe the intrinsic elements of novel, and characters involve in the story. But the problem of this research is the structure or grammar used in the story, especially degree of comparison and its types. Subject of this research is a classic novel written by a woman author of Victorian era, George Eliot that is “Silas Marner : Weaver of Raveloe”. Object of study is structure or grammar in the novel with the main focus of grammar elements that will be analyzed is degree of comparison. The research is done by using library research which the steps are : the writer gets observation to library to get and gathered all of written information that relevant with the research problem. Some techniques of data collecting used are reading the novel, comprehend it, and then chooses the data dealing with the problem. Then the writer conducts on survey on the text paragraph and dialogues in the novel. After that the writer takes evidence related to the selected data. The data then be processing with three stages, they are editing, clarifying and listing and finally all the data are analyzed descriptive qualitative and concluded inductively. The result of this research shows that novel “Silas Marner : Weaver of Ravaloe” tells about a tale of familial love and loyalty, reward and punishment which for whom good gets rewarded and the bad gets punishment, and a humble friendship. There are 36 characters in the novel with only about five characters play dominant in the story, there 226 statement in degree of comparison form. Id divided into three types, they are : 42 statements using positive degree, 147 statements in comparative degree, and 37 statement in superlative degree. And the most used type of degree of comparison in the novel is comparative degree.

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