Key words: Figurative Language, Novel “The Fault in Our Star”
Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense.
Appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking
at the world. The objectives of the study are to describe the types of figurative
language and to identify the contextual meaning of the figurative language in John
Green’s Novel “The Fault in our Star”. This research employed descriptive
qualitative method. The result showed they were 82 sentences figurative
languages in this novel, the researcher found 7 kinds of figurative languages
consisted of 12 hyperbole, 5 irony, 5 litotes, 16 metaphor, 15 metonymy, 12
personification, and 17 simile. The most dominant figurative languages used is a
simile as many as 17. All of the figurative language that are used in “The Fault in
Our Stars” made to be descriptive, understandable and imaginable. Some
figurative in this novel were used to describe something funny, serious, or
unpredictable. It can be concluded that figurative language has important roles in
this novel. That is why the author used so many sentences that have figurative
language in the novel. Using figurative language makes the novel more interesting
to read, and helps the readers to imagine the story, the character based on the
illustration that the author has already given in the story.