ABSTRACT The purposes of this research are to explain the language styles used in Nursery Rhymes, and to describe the language styles that dominantly appear in Nursery Rhymes based on diction, structure, and meaning. This study was conducted by using qualitative research. The data were taken from Nursery Rhymes book (2009) published by Brown Watson. Content analysis was used in collecting the data. While in analyzing the data, interactive model analysis was used. From the data analysis, informal and spoken style were found in language style based on diction. Then in language based on structure, climax, anticlimax, parallelism, antithesis, and repetition were found. Next alliteration, assonance, anastrophe, asyndeton, polysindeton, ellipsis, tautology, simile, fable, personification, metonymy, synecdoche totum pro parte, antonomasia, and satire style were found in language style based on meaning. This study also found that the dominant language style based on diction was informal and spoken style, while based on sentence structure was repetition. The last, alliteration style was the dominant language style based on meaning. Key Words : Stylistics, Language Style, Nursery Rhyme.

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