Figurative language used in sports rubric in The Jakarta Post Newspaper

This study conducts to analyze the use of figurative language in sport rubric of The Jakarta Post newspaper. This study focuses on observing the words which contain figurative language by using Evelyn Hatch’s theory that consists of simile, metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, allusion, personification and antithesis. The method of this study was descriptive qualitative because the researcer described about the reason of the sentence that is categorized into figurative language. Whereas, data source is taken from sports rubric in The Jakarta Post newspaper which published in February 2016 to April 2016. The result of the data shows that there are 63 sentences which contain of figurative language in sport rubrics of The Jakarta Post newspaper. The research has found that there are seven kinds of figurative language which appeared in sport rubrics of The Jakarta Post newspaper. They are simile, metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, hyperbole, allusion and personification. In addition, the researcher also found the funtion of figurative language which used in The Jakarta Post newspaper is to attract the reader’s attention