A STUDY OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE MADMAN BY KAHLIL GIBRAN

ABSTRACT Concerning to the topic about figurative languages, this study isfocused on the use of figurative languages andmeaning that proposed by Perrine (1973), Reaske (1966), and Kenndey (2002) in analyzing figurative language inThe Madman By Kahlil Gibran . This study took this topic because it is intended to investigate about what kind of figurative language used and what is the meaning of each figurative language used in The Madman by Kahlil Gibran. This research was designed by using descriptive qualitative method becausethe data of this research were in the form of utterances that were not statisticallyanalyzed. This study also used stylistics because the researcher wanted toknow what figurative languages were used in poem. The data were taken from the text of poems in the eight poems of The Madman By Kahlil Gibran. It found seven kinds of figurative language, there are: simile (15,29%), personification (11,76%), apostrophe (47,05%), metonymy (2,35%), symbol (8,23%), hyperbola (8,23%), understatement (3,52%). It was also concluded that meaning that were used in the eight of poemsmostly referred to the poet’s character and condition. The poet employed figurative language in his eight poems to make the poem life and also to make readers getting sense of what the poems tell.

Key words: figurative language, meaning