The analysis of figurative language in lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele

Hakim, Ilham (2018) The analysis of figurative language in lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Language becomes the most important tool for an individual life because It is applied to express ourselves and understand the life. It means to express everything that exist in person, either in a form of feeling, thoughts, ideas and wishes. Language can be identified not only from conversational language, but also in literature. Song included to the literature. A song has a figurative meaning inside the lyrics which makes the suitable statement presented the feeling perfectly into the deepest motion and also beautify the language to make the listeners will be more attracted in listening to the song. This part, the objectives of the research are to describe types of figurative language, to find the dominant of figurative language and to explain the reason of figurative language used in lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele. This research used descriptive design andqualitative approachas a research design by content analysis technique. It was becausethe researcher attempts to describe and interpret objects as what they areand situated in a particular perspective or context and since different people and groups often have different perspectives and contexts. It was also focused on the process that was occurring as well as the product such as a song. Then, the researcher selected the lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele as the primary of data sources. Then, the data collection was using documentation. The research findings for this research were shown that there were the figurative language is applied of song lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele. Hyperbole has a total of 35 (43,75%) figurative number. Personification is less than hyperbole. Personification is number two of all figurative language in lyrics of “Album 21” by Adele as many as 12 seeds (15%). Synechdoche as many as 10 seeds (12,5%), repetition as many as 8 seeds (10%), oxymoron as many as 4 seeds(5%), simile as many as 3 seeds (3,75%), litotes as many as 3 seeds (3,75%), metaphoras many as 2 seeds (2,5%),elipsis as many as 2 seeds (2,5%) and zeugma as many as 1 seed (1,25%). Hyperbole dominate the whole songs and get the highest number of among others. The reason used figurative language It seems that the writer refers to overstateand also build a sentence by the strong pointed with the effects weregiven. The writer wants to describe her heart into the deepest motion by using figurative language.

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