CREATIVE THINKING USING METAPHORIC LANGUAGE TO IMPROVE POETRY WRITING SKILLS

Marlina Bakri (State University of Jakarta)
Aceng Rahmat (State University of Jakarta)
Ninuk Lustyantie (State University of Jakarta)

Getsempena English Education Journal
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)

metaphoric language affect students in improving their poetry writing skills. By taking randomly 176 samples from a student population of 314, data were collected through 3 types of tests and were analyzed by a regression test. The results show that the ability to think creatively has an effect on improving the students' poetry writing skills by 72.9% while the ability to use metaphoric language has an effect of 7.30% on their poetry writing skills. The implications that these effects provide cognitive and practical benefits are also discussed.