Semantic Analysis of Hyponymy in the Short Story “My Hero is You (How Kids Can Fight Covid-19)” By IASC

Abstract

The goals of the study were to determine which hyponymy category was the most frequent and which was the infrequent in the short tale of “My Hero is You (How Kids Can Fight Covid-19)”created by IASC. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. The data was examined by breaking down substance and then researching different types of hyponymy and classifying the hyponymy. In the short tale of “My Hero is You (How Kids Can Fight Covid-19)” There are seventeen kinds of hyponymy category. Those hyponymy are transportation, occupation, place, room, disease, body parts, size, appearance, planet, male, female, flower, age, distance, toiletries, virus, and number. In view the goal of examination to discover the most frequent kinds of hyponymy category and the infrequent kinds of hyponymy category, it was uncovered that the most frequent one type of hyponymy category is "appearance" with a sum of 13 words and the infrequent one type of hyponymy category are "virus", "toiletries", "flower", "room" and "transportation" with a sum of 5 and 1 words in every class. The examination inferred that for students aged 16 years and over who want to improve their English skill. It was ideal to recall words through hyponymy. In this way, understudies be able to develop their jargon, compose and talk in English unquestionably.