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This paper aims to analyze various figures of military unit slogans of the ROK Navy. For this purpose, total of 136 unit slogans of battleships and ground units were selected for analysis. The 227 figures, which were applied to the selected units slogans, were divided into 2 figurative modes. The first was the figures of thought (53%) and the second was the figures of language (47%). The former then was classified as trope, figures of association, figures of citation, and the latter was classified as figures of structure and figures of rhyme. Among the figures of thought, for the trope, the metonymy was mostly used. For the figures of association it was the hyperbole, and for the figures of citation the allusion. And among the figures of language, for the structure, the ellipsis was mostly used and for the figures of rhyme the assonance. The most preferred figures among military unit slogans was the hyperbole, which was represented in 48 slogans, accounting for 35.3% of the total. This type of rhetorical devices demonstrates the combat power and the military spirit of the unit, and emphasizes their pride, while envisioning a victory in a battle.