Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to analyze of rhetorical figures used in car
advertisements headlines found in the Bangkok Post. The subject of this study was car
advertisements headlines of the Bangkok Post published from 1st April, 2013 to 30th
September, 2013,183 newspapers in total. This research was a mixed methods design.
The data were analyzed using Leigh (1994) framework as a guideline, and through
descriptive statistics.
The results indicated that 27 rhetorical figures were found in the headlines:
Imagery, Hyperbole, Litotes, Other Types of Puns, Simile, Allusion, Paradox, Parody,
Metonymy, Syllepsis, Periphrasis, Metaphor, Personification, Apposition, Assonance,
Alliteration, Epistrophe, Climax, Ellipsis, Internal Rhyme, Anaphora, Parallelism,
Poloysyndeton, Antithesis, Polyptoton, End Rhyme and Repetition. The rhetorical figure
mostly found was Imagery (23.81%). In particular, Tropes (88.09%) were more
frequently found in the headlines than schemes (69.05%).