Abstract:
The important component of advertisements appearing in magazines is main headlines since they are the first part that can attract target customers. Many advertising creators often use figures of speech in writing headlines. The purpose of this research was to study and compare the difference between the use of figures of speech, including trope and scheme in the main headlines of advertisements on dietary supplements appearing in online health magazines for men and women published in 2010-2017. The stimuli of this study comprised 67 headlines in advertisements fordietary supplement products in Mens Health and Womens Health magazine. The stylistic framework of figure of speech is divided into 2 categories; trope and scheme. The data analysis is presented in descriptive analysis style. Statistical analysis, frequency and percentage. The results of this study revealed that scheme was found in use with a higher frequency than trope both in Mens and Womens Magazines with the percentage of 29.00 and 24.00, respectively. Finally, alliteration was used with the highest frequency in both Mens and Womens Health Magizines with the percentage of 40.00 and 38.00, respectively.