Group 2: Research Report Structure

Multiple Choice

"The metaphors can be seen everywhere in The Great Gatsby. The use of metaphor in this classic work adds depth to the text, which fascinates many readers. The key to understanding the deep meaning of this book is to understand the large number of metaphors used in the text. For a long time, scholars have used literary theories to analyze this book, such as New Historicism theories to discuss the disillusion of the “American Dream” or the literary rhetorical function of metaphor in the book. Few people have used conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics to analyze this book. Therefore, we applied the conceptual metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson to study the metaphors of some popular classic sentences in this book." (

Is this pink sentence statement of problem or significance of the study?

• Statement of the problem

• Significance of the study