METAPHORICAL PATTERNS IN BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECHES

This study dealt with Metaphorical Patterns in Barack Obama’s Speeches. The study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative approach. The objectives of the study were to find the metaphorical patterns in Barack Obama’s Speeches. The data were collected from the speech of Barack Obama. The study revealed that there are five metaphorical patterns are used in Barack Obama’s speeches: general reifying, animizing and personifying metaphors, materializing abstract process, process, object or substance. The speech was the representative of their sayings to White people. The responses of White people were analyzed by theory and the responses are: White people receive and felt happy because everything that he said about unity is good in the speech. .