The importance of figurative language covers all skills, such as helping the
writer make a point or describing an image that a standard sentence could not such
as making personal letter more interesting because it contains figurative language
in it. This research aimed to analyze the types of figurative language the students
use in writing a personal letter in language development unit class and the
figurative language dominantly used.
The researcher employed a descriptive qualitative method by doing private
document technique. The data were collected from the students’ personal letter
worksheets of English language development unit class of UIN Antasari
Banjarmasin in Academic year 2022 group 31st that consisted of 21 students.
The result showed that the types of figurative language the students used
in writing personal letter were simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy,
paradox, hyperbole, and understatement. Simile was the most dominant figurative
language type used because they wrote it communicatively and applied these
figurative languages in their daily life that happened in experiences or situations
of student life nowadays as a gen z.