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This research was conducted under the title “An Analysis of Figurative Language Found in Kidung Jemaat Lyric Songs”. The research problem of this research that solved by the writer stated as follow: (1) what are the types of figurative language found in Kidung Jemaat lyric songs?, (2) what are the dominant types of figurative language found in Kidung Jemaat lyric songs”. The aims of the study are to find out, 1) the types of figurative language found in Kidung Jemaat lyric songs, 2) the dominant types of figurative language found in Kidung Jemaat lyric songs. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative method. The writer focus on the song living in faith every day, it is start from pages 356 up to page 418 consists of 64 songs. The writer is only takes 19 of the song by selected the songs and verses. The writer gets the finding of this research, such as: 1) the writer found nine kinds of figurative language as bellow: Anaphora 8 sentences (8.89%), metaphor 6 sentence (6.67%), simile 2 sentence (2.22%), metonymy 23 sentence (25.56%), synecdoche 1 sentence (1.11%), personification 3 sentence (3.33%), irony 2 sentences (2.22%), allegory 14 sentences (15.56%) and symbol sentence (1.11%). The most dominant type of figurative language found in this research is metonymy with 23 sentences (25.56%).The writer concluding that the Kidung Jemaat or songs of the congregation is very beautiful songs to worship God to express our feeling love to honor our Creator which is created effects and imposing to the worshiper in sing the songs.