Analisis Gaya Bahasa pada Novel 172 Days Karya Nadzira Shafa

The aim of the research is to determine the form and describe the meaning of language styles in the novel 172 Days by Nadzira Shafa. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative method. The data collection techniques used are 1) reading as a whole, 2) continuous reading, 3) reading once again. The technique for testing data validity is triangulation, namely comparing data and information obtained by combining data collection techniques and data sources. Data analysis techniques are data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and verification. The results of the research are that in the novel 172 Days the author uses the language styles of comparison, contradiction, linkage and repetition. In the comparative language style, only a few figures of speech are found to be used, namely simile, personification, association, symbolic, metaphor and allegory. There are only a few figures of speech used in conflicting language styles, namely hyperbole and paradox. Linking language styles are only found in parallelism figures of speech. The language style of repetition is only found in tautological figures of speech.