Abstract:
This study deals with the use of the figurative language on The Rainbow Troops
novel by Andrea Hirata. This study aimed to find out the sentence of figurative
language and establishes the types of figurative language and analyze the meaning
of the figurative language itself. The source of the data was The Rainbow Troops
novel by Andrea Hirata. Descriptive qualitative research was applied in this data.
The data were classified into the types of figurative language. The data were
analyze based on the meaning of the figurative language. There were found 94
times figurative language and 7 types of figurative language, and 94 times
meaning of the figurative language itself. The result of this research demonstrate
that there are 6 sentences of personification, 49 sentences of similes, 6 sentences
of methapor, 23 sentences of hyperbole, 1 sentence of irony, 6 sentences of
metonymy and 3 sentences of litotes.
