An Analysis of Idiomatic Expression of Green’s The Fault InOur Stars.Aprilia Safitri127010039

This research entitled An Analysis of idiomatic expression of Green‟s The Fault in Our Star. An idiom is a special feature of language that has a specific form or style presents only in a language. Even, in translating idiomatic expressions, we cannot translate them literally (word by word). This is caused of many idiomatic expressions which cannot be understood grammatically. At any rate, idiomatic expressions are very important for the English language learners either EFL (English as Foreign Language) or ESL (English as Second Language). In this research, there are two research problem: 1) What are the type of idiomatic expressions found in novel entitled “The Fault in Ours Stars” by John Green? and 2) What are the connotative meaning of idioms used in novel entitle “The Fault in Ours Stars” by John Green? So that, the objectives of this research are: 1) To find out the type of idiomatic expressions in novel entitled “The Fault in Ours Stars” by John Green 2.) To know the connotative meaning of idioms in novel entitled “The Fault in Ours Stars” by John Green. This research method used library research by applying content analysis. The data of this research is in the form of utterances and sentences that contained idiomatic expression. In addition, its data source is taken from John Green entitled The Fault In Our Stars and it‟s Indonesian version. The result of finding analysis, the researcher found out 281 idiomatic expressions in “The Fault in Our Stars” novel. Those idiomatic expressions are also interpreted into their connotative meaning based on the context of sentence in the novel. Keyword : Idiom, Idiomatic Expression,Connotative Meaning