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ABSTRACT This thesis is under title A descriptive Study On Figurative Language In Timorese’s Songs. The problems of this study are, what are the types and the meaning of each figurative language in Timorese’s songs. The objectives of this research is to find out the types and the meaning of each figurative language in Timorese’s songs. Descriptive qualitative method is used in doing this research. The data was taken from the eleven songs. In this research, the writer collected the data by videos and transcript, then translated into English, then, classified into, the types of figurative language and then analyzed the meaning of each lyrics that is include to the types of figurative language. After analyzing the data, the writer found the seven types of figurative used in the Timorese’s songs. There are fourteen lyrics in the songs that consists of four lyrics of Simile, three lyrics of Metaphor, one lyrics of Allegory, two lyrics of Personification, one lyric of Antonomasia, two lyrics of Epithet and three lyric of Irony. Therefore, figurative language dominated by the Timorese’s songs.