Oxymoron Analysis on A Third Grade Dropout Will Change Your Life Speech

Abstract

This study dealt with the figure of speech on A Third Grade Dropout Will Change Your Life Speech by Rick Rigsby. The objectives of the research were to find out the types of Oxymoron used and realized on speech. The source of the data were taken from the A Third Grade Dropout will Change Your Life Speech video by Rick Rigsby that is the minister, motivational speaker, author and former college professor. By using descriptive qualitative method of the data were analyzed and it was found totally 11 sentences, 3 various types. They were 3 Objective Oxymoron, 6 Subjective Oxymorons, 2 Punning Oxymoron. The reason for using oxymoron in the speech to make something tragic, ironic and make the listener more interested to focus on the speech and stay tuned with us until the last of the speech.