Cohesive Devices in Short Story of the Magic Horse by Idriesh Shah

Abstract

Determining words is one of the obstacles, so it is difficult to be creative in determining the ideas that we will include in our writing. Creating coherent text requires cohesion, which is an important component. This study will discuss lexical coherence and its significance used of lexical coherent techniques in a short story. Both descriptive and qualitative methods—content analysis and library research—were used in this study. The author examined the many kinds of cohesive devices in Idriesh Shah's short story The Magic Horse. The result of  The short story uses five different kinds of coherent devices. These are lexical coherence (4.348%), reference (43.48%), substitution (13.04%), ellipsis (4.35%), and conjunction (34.79%). Cohesive devices, according to the inquiry, make it easier to comprehend both the text's internal logic and its structural elements.

Keyword: Cohesive Devices, Short Story