A Description Of Figure Of Speech In Jojo Moyes’s Novel Me Before You

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to describe the types of figure of speech found in the novel Me Before You. And to describe the meaning of figure speech used in the novel Me Before You. In this paper, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method by applying collecting data from library research. Primary data were taken from the novel Me Before You, the secondary data were from references from scientific books and the internet. The researcher uses concept of figure of speech by Gorys Keraf. The researcher found that simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony were used in the novel Me Before You. So, the results of this study state that the dominant figure of speech used in the novel Me Before You is the simile which was found 13 times. Then the hyperbole of 10 times is the second most used figure of speech. Meanwhile, metaphor is found 8 times, personification is found 5 times, metonymy is found 5 times, and finally irony is found 1 time. So, it can be concluded that simile is the dominant figure of speech used in novel Me Before You.