Abstract:
This study aimed to discover and explain all the types, lexical and
contextual meaning of figurative languages used in Joe Biden‘s Inaugural speech
and this study is hoped to be utilized by further researcher.
The data sources used in this study was the inaugural speech of Joe Biden.
In analyzing the data, the writer used descriptive qualitative research method
through semantic approach. Data were obtained by using the techniques of
reading, noting, and analyzing. While in classifying the data, the writer used
Keraf‘s theory of figurative language.
In this study, the writer analyzed the inaugural speech of Joe Biden in order
to find and classify the figurative language and the meaning. The results of this
study indicate that there were 13 figurative language used by Joe Biden. There
were 6 types figurative language found in the speech consists of six metonym, one
synecdoche, two simile, one epithet, two metaphor and one allusion. There were
13 meanings of the data consists of contextual meanings of the data which the
meanings based from the context where the language is used. And lexical
meanings of the data were the meanings found in online dictionary.
