The researcher conducted this study in light
of some figures of speech from Old Possum’s Book of
Practical Cats, which contains 14 fundamental songs
of Cats the musical, and categorized them into four
groups: Comparison (metaphors, similes, and
synecdoches;) Reference (allusions;) Repetitions
(anaphoras, refrains, and repetitions;) and Rhetoric
(antithesis, chiasmus, onomatopoeia, oxymorons, and
rhetorical questions.) The procedures of the study are
shown below:
3.1 The researcher collected the poems from Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, written by T.S. Eliot.
3.2 The researcher studied the principles of figures of
speech to understand any figuration better before using
it as the framework of the study.
3.3 After reading the principles and the poems
thoroughly, the researcher selected related figures of
speech.
3.4 The chosen figures of speech were used to establish
the scope for the study.
3.5 The researcher used the figures of speech to analyze
the content of the poems.