The Analysis of Adjectives Found in Sophie Kinsella’s Novel Confessions of a Shopaholic and Its Application In Teaching Writing

Abstract

This study aims to find out types of adjectives in the Sophie Kinsella’s novel Confessions of a Shopaholic and to describe its application in teaching writing in Senior High School. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative because the process of data collecting is done by classifying types of adjectives in the Sophie Kinsella’s novel Confessions of a Shopaholic, and the researcher is as the key instrument. In collecting the data, the researcher reads the novel of Confessions of a Shopaholic,
comprehends the novel and finds the adjectives found in the novel. While in analyzing data, the researcher gives code to the data, classifies the types of adjectives found, counts the data, applies the finding in teaching writing and then draws conclusion and suggestion. The result of this research shows that there are 310 adjectives. Based on the result of the analysis, there are 170 descriptive adjectives (54.8%), 14 proper
adjectives (4.6%), 8 quantitative adjectives (2.7%), 23 numeral adjectives (7.4%), 10 demonstrative adjectives (3.3%), 10 interrogative adjectives (3.3%), 47 posessive adjectives (15.3%), 15 distributive
adjectives (4.4%), 5 exclamatory adjectives (1.6%), 2 emphasizing adjectives (0.7%), and 6 relative adjectives (1.9%). Further, descriptive adjective is the most dominant type of adjectives found.