Abstract:
This study deals on the rhetorical analysis of Stand-up Comedy program in
Kompas TV. It was aimed to investigate the rhetorical elements and describe how
the rhetoric used by the three Stand Up comedians (Ridwan, Dany, and Mamat) in
Stand Up Comedy Indonesia (SUCI) Kompas TV. Descriptive qualitative method
was used to describe, identify, and classify the data obtain from the scripts by
using Brooks and Warren’s theory in Tara Lockhart’s journal which focusing on
the modern rhetoric books that centre in chapter of style: style, diction, and
figurative language. Based on finding in this study, analyzing types of style,
diction and figurative language in Stand Up Comedy in Kompas TV, it was found
that the type abstract was 22 (32.35%), followed by style type whit the percentage
was 3 (4.41%), connotative type 4 (4.88%), specific type 11 (16.17%), concrete
type 6 (8.82%), denotative type 4 (5.88%), denotation type 2 (2.94%), hyperbole
type 7 (10.29%), synecdoche type 3 (4.41%), metonymy type 3 (4.41%),
oximoron type 2 (2.94%), and smile type 1 (1.47%). Therefore, it can be infer that
the stand-up comedian using the same types of diction and almost the same types
of figurative language but the differences between them is delivering their
rhetoric. The implication of this study is to improve rhetoric analysis with using
correct diction and accuracy of figurative language
