Stylistic Analysis of Surah Abasa from Figures of Speech Perspective
Abstract
This article targets to identify figures of speech in surah Abasa. The research is qualitative in nature and uses Leech and Shorts’ Model (2007) but the research specifically targets figures of speech category of the theory. The data is analyzed based on the original text’s close reading. The result concludes that surah Abasa is a literary masterpiece which is comprised of fourty-two (42) verses. The surah is consisted of short verses (ayat), rhythmic sound and a strong rhetorical style. The research concludes that surah is full of Literary figures, i.e. Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance, Anaphora, Parallelism, Contrast, Hypophora, Rhetorical Question, Allusion, Polyptoton, Aphorism, Imagery, Cadence, Hyperbole, Kairos, Ethos, Pathos, Logos, etc. in order to do the embellishment of meanings, and convey multiple meanings through the fewest possible words.
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