The approach used in this research is qualitative descriptive. The purpose of this study is to describe the transitivity process in the novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta to describe the kinds of lexical metaphor that existed in the novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta and to describe the relevance of research finding to language learning in high school.
This research reports the result of transitivity investigation of lexical metaphor in the novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta and its relevance to language learning in SMA.
