Abstract :
This research focused on analysing the types and meaning of figurative
language in poetry anthology book written by English Literature students. The
researcher applied Leech theory (1969 & 1981) which functioned to categorize
the types and meaning of figurative language. Besides, this research also adopted
qualitative method, since the analysis dealt with words instead of numbers. The
results of the analysis showed that there are eight types of figurative language
occurred in anthology book. Those are personification, simile, metaphor,
hyperbole, oxymoron, irony, litotes, and metonymy. Additionally, the dominant
types of figurative language is personification. Then, there are six types of
meaning in figurative language found in the anthology book. Those are
connotative meaning, conceptual meaning, reflected meaning, collocative
meaning, affective meaning, and thematic meaning. In addition, the result showed
that by using figurative language in writing a poem, the author aimed to enrich the
aestatetic value within the poem.