LINGUAMEDIA Journal - Volume 1 Nomor 1, 2020 ISSN Online: XXXX-XXXX Penerbit: Faculty of Language and Culture University of 17 Agustus Semarang 48 AN INVESTIGATION OF MOOD AND TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN THE SHORT STORY “FRUIT PASSION” Haryani 1 , Ainur Rosyidah Azmie Putry 2 haryani@akpelni.ac.id 1 , putryazmie@students.unnes.ac.id 2 Politeknik Bumi Akpelni 1 , Universitas Negeri Semarang 2 ABSTRACT This research aimed to investigate mood and transitivity analysis employed in popular short story Fruit Passion. the reseacher choose one of short story from 8 th grade of junior high school students’ textbook. This text belongs to jokes for kids which mostly found in meme. The objectives of the research are analysing the interpersonal meaning realized in the short story by identifying the mood types, speech roles, and modality. Besides that, identifying the process based on ideational meaning and explaining the contribution of both interpersonal meaning and ideational meaning towards teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia. The result revealed that the prominent use of statements in the text, the author provides a broad and comprehensible information in the short story. Therefore, the objective of the text is successfully achieved based on the text genre. Besides that, the existence of ideational meaning which apply material process as the dominant process revealed that mostly the story emphasizes on what the actor do or what happen to the actor. The employment of material process in narrative text assists the author in designing the story plot in order to construct comprehensible and meaningful story. Keywords: Mood analysis, transitivity, short-story. INTRODUCTION Language constructs an interaction between people where they initiate to respond by providing or demanding some goods, service, even information. People require language to communicate with others in particular settings. Halliday (1994) argued that language is a resource for creating meaning and the meaning is constructed in the contexts. In addition, he also defined that language simultaneously expresses three strands of meaning, such as interpersonal