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.
