Figurative Language Analysis in Malala Yousafzai’s Quotes from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the types of figurative language and investigate the frequency of figurative language which is used in quotes from ‘I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban’. The samples are 20 quotes from Malala Yousafzai’s famous book which are gathered by purposive sampling. The finding indicates that figurative language is used in every type except paradox, allusion and alliteration. Moreover, the most frequent used is symbolism.