AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN LANGSTON HUGHES’ POETRY

The objectives of this research were to find out the types of figurative language in Langston Hughes poetry. This study deals with the analysis of figurative language in Langston Hughes attainments on Poetry. The study done is based on the poetry in the data which were shared from Dream variation, Dream, Dream deferred,I dream a world, As I grew older, I continue to dream. This research was carried out by using descriptive qualitative method. There were 56 sample analyzing in poetry. The findings of the data analysis showed that there are six types figurative language. The findings also found that there were six figurative language analyzed in the data namely hyperbole(42,85%), personification(26,78%), imagery(1,78%), simile(14,28%), euphemism(5,35%) and metaphor(8,92%). It was found that the most dominant types of figurative languages were hyperbole and personification