This research represented the study of semantics in the form of figurative language by analyzing two different online short stories. Using both fiction and non-fiction stories, the researcher aimed to explore the variations by finding the most used figurative language and examining how it was used in different genre. ‘The Island’ as the fiction and ‘Gene & T-shirt’ as the non-fiction story were used. The researcher used qualitative methods and document analysis by using reading online platform from Readsy.com. It attempted to answer research questions, the researcher used Perrine's (1982:61) theory of figurative language classification, as cited in Wibisono and Widodo (2019): Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, and other terms. The result showed that most used figurative language in the stories were personification and metaphor. Furthermore, fiction used more figurative language than non-fiction stories, they were 49 items founded in fiction story and 44 items in non-fiction story.