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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON JOHN MAYER’S ALBUM THE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING
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Priskila Daddu Ngediˡ Erny S. N. Hambandima² Zuvyati A. Tlonaen³
English Education Study Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
Artha Wacana Christian University
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The title of this writing is “Figurative Language on John Mayer’s Album The Search for Everything”. Song is an example of literary and musical work where the words are performed to express thoughts and feelings. Figurative language is any way of saying other than the ordinary way. Figurative language are quite important to be learned to prevent any misunderstanding. The researcher formulated one research problem to observe and get the data for the research. The research problem is what are types of figurative language found in John Mayer’s song album. The purpose of this research is to identify the types of figurative language in the song lyrics of John Mayer. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method. This research has shown that this album consist of twelve song, because there is only one song that has no song lyrics. Therefore, the songs having lyrics are eleven. The result of this research those eleven songs become the data for this study, there are six types of figurative language, there are 12 data classified as hyperbole for example i have told you that a million times, 10 data belong to paradox for example nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded, 9 data belong to personification for example the stars danced around the night sky, 4 data belong to metaphor for example your diamond eyes amaze me, 6 data belong to symbol for example she is so beautiful like a rose,3 data belong to simile for example the child resembles his father and 5 data belong to verbal irony for example your hand writing is very good that i could not read it.
Key words: Song, Types of Figurative Language
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ABSTRACT This research is about descriptive study of figurative language in Bara Pattyradja poetry. It aims to find out figurative language used in Bara Pattyradja poetry. There are two research questions in this research to discuss: 1) What are types of Figurative Language in Bara Pattyradja Poetry? 2) What is the dominant of Figurative Language used in Bara Pattyradja Poetry? To conducts the research, the researcher used Tjahjono’s (2011) theory to analyze figurative language in Bara Pattyradja poetry. Descriptive qualitative method is used in doing this research. The results of this research show that: first, the researcher concludes that Bara Pattyradja poetry uses allegory, hyperbole, metaphor, parallelism, periphrasis, personification, simile, symbol, paradox, symmetry, polysyndeton, antithesis, and tautology. Second, most also found that the dominant types of figurative language uses in the poetry is metaphor. It appears eight times in poem Samudra Cinta Ikan Paus, Pacar Gelap Puisi, and Geser Dikit Halaman Hatimu. And the least is hyperbole, symmetry, paradox, symbol, periphrasis, and allegory in poem Aku Adalah Peluru. Key words: Figurative language, poetry
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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.
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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.
