An analysis of figurative language used in the Great Gatsby movie

The Great Gatsby is one of amovie by Buchnan tells about tragic story.This study focuses on types of figurative language found in Buchnan’s The Great Gatsby, and the functions of figurative language found in the Great Gatsby’s Movie by using Kennedy’s theory. The aim of this study is to describe the types and the function of figurative language in Buchnan’s The Great Gatsby. This study uses descriptive qualitative method to describe and analyze types of figurative language in this movie. Next this study also describes about the functions of figurative language used in The Great Gatsby movie. The result of this study istypes of figurative language, there are five data that contain personification, three data of metaphor, ten data contain simile. There are three data that contain Hyperbole, two data of Litotes and one data of paradox. Then, there are two data contains ellipsis, one data of symbol, one data in metonymy and also seven data contain climax and anti-climax.Then, the function of the figurative language, those are to make a beautiful sentence in writing style and as a poetic, then to make ommit the same word and meaning to make a good beautiful sentence in writing a text of literary work and to know the issue of the story in climax and anti-climax used.