Figurative Language Used In Book A Poem I Wrote For You

Abstract

This thesis is entitled " Figurative Language Used in Book A Poem I Wrote for You ". The discussion in this thesis contains the types of figurative language and the meaning of each figurative language contained in the book A Poem I Wrote for You. This study aims 1) to find out the types of figurative language contained in the book A poem i wrote for you, 2) to describe how the types of figurative language realized in the book A poem i wrote for you. The data is taken from book "A poem i wrote for you". In this thesis, the writer used a qualitative descriptive method, explains several theories related to figurative language, then collects data from the book. Based on the theory, the writer chose several sentences containing figurative language and analyzes them as a whole to find out the types of figurative language. The author refers to the theory of figurative language put forward by Rozakis (1995), and the qualitative analysis method put forward by Creswell (2014). From the results of the analysis, the writer concludes that there are 7 figurative languages found in the book, namely metaphor with 6 sentences (8,5%),simile with 10 sentences (14,2%), hyperbole with 27 sentences (38,5%), personification with 14 sentences (20%), apostrophe with 1 sentence (1,4%), onomatopoeia with 1 sentence (1,4%) and oxymoron with 11 sentences (15,7%). From the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that figurative language has an important role in this book. So the author uses a lot of figurative language. The use of figurative language makes the book more interesting to read, and helps the reader to describe the illustrations and imaginations created by the author in his book.