METAPHOR IN ENGLISH VERSION OF SURA ALI IMRAN

This study presents a research conducted on Metaphor in English Version of Sura Ali Imran. It is a kind of descriptive qualitative research. The source of the data was taken from the translation of Sura Ali Imran, The Qur’an, by Haleem Abdel, Oxford University Press. They were contained in the verses of Sura Ali Imran, then analyzed the kinds, functions, and the reasons of using metaphor. Distribution of this metaphor is consulting on Ibnu Katsir’s Tafseer book. The kinds are refers to Lakoff and Johnson that divided the metaphor into two kinds, explicit and implicit metaphor. The functions of metaphor are arranged in order according to which of Halliday’s three metafunctions. Then, the reasons is based on Wahab’s four contextual reason. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there are two kinds of metaphor used in Sura Ali Imran, 14 verses of explicit metaphor and 18 verses of implicit metaphor. The second finding is there are 9 functions used from 13 functions as the breakdown of Halliday’s three metafunction. The next finding found that the reason why the metaphor is used in Sura Ali Imran are because of four contextual reasons. Therefore, it can be concluded that, Some messages of the Al Qur’an in Sura Ali Imran have a stressing point which is delivered in more beautiful words in implicit metaphor that make the readers have a deeply understanding toward the message. The findings also show the rich of the language used in Al Qur’an and the reality of the God’s Law, Allah SWT, known from the functions which are not taken in this Sura.