Rhetorical Tropes Used in Secrets of Divine Love by A. Helwa

Rhetorical tropes are mostly used in literary work. One of the literary works which use the rhetorical tropes can be found in a non-fiction book. However, rhetorical tropes contain a non-literal meaning which has an implicit meaning. Therefore, this study was carried out to identify the types and meanings of rhetorical tropes used in A. Helwa's book Secrets of Divine Love. Five chapters about the pillar of Islam have been selected as the source material. This study employs a qualitative method with content analysis. Rhetorical tropes were examined by using Burkes's (1969) theory. The findings show that all rhetorical tropes proposed by Burke (1969) are: metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, and irony, were found in the five selected chapters in Secrets of Divine Love. There are nineteen rhetorical tropes found, they are nine metaphors, one synecdoche, eight metonymies, and one irony. Among all rhetorical tropes, the most dominant used trope is metaphor. It implicates that rhetorical tropes can be material in English literature.