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A live sports commentary is essential to conveying the excitement and details of sports, allowing the audience to feel its atmosphere, tensions, and ensuing emotions. In a live commentary, Professional commentators often use a variety of language devices, such as figurative language, specific lexicons, jargon, and registers, to convey more vivid meanings. This study was set to examine what types of figurative language commonly used in live commentaries of karate competitions. Using a qualitative method, the data, in the forms of 10 transcripts of live commentaries, were gathered from an event called  Tokyo Karate1-Premier League 2019. Coding and categorizing the types of figurative language within the commentary were employed to process the data analysis. Data analysis suggested seven types of figurative language from the live commentaries of the karate competition. The figurative languages are personification, simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, and synecdoche. This research contributes to a deeper comprehension of the literary devices that shape sports narratives by elaborating on the various figurative language used in karate live commentary.

figurative language, karate live commentaries, sports narratives