Abstract :
Kiki Ariska: An Anylisis of Figurative Language Used in Harmony’s Song
Lyrics. Bumigora University. Faculty of Social Siences And Humanities.
English Department. 2022.
This research is aimed at taking comprehensive understanding regarding the
types of figurative language within the song lyrics in Harmony’s song. After
understanding the type of figurative language, then it’s related and connected to
the ideas of the author. The theories which are applied in this research are
stylistics and figurative language. This research is aimed at finding out the answer
of the statement of the problem. The purposes of this research are: (1) to identify
the types of figurative language found in Harmony’s song lyrics, and (2) to find
the fuction of figurative language used in Harmony’s song lyrics and it research
applied descriptive qualitative approach. In collecting the data, the researcher
searched the songs and noting technique to the scripts. Read and understood the
song lyrics in Harmony’s song lyrics. While in analyzing the data, the researcher
translete the data into English, identified the data based on the types of figurative
languages, classified the data based on the types of figurative languages, analyzed
the selected data based on the figurative languages, and made conclusion and
found suggestion. The results of data analysis, the researcher concluded that, there
are 7 data found in Harmony’s song lyrics, namely: simile, symbol, irony,
personification, paradox, hyperbole, and metaphor. The function of figurative
language simile and symbol in Thun Nathe’s song lyrics is to afford imagination
pleasure, while in irony is to add emotional intensity. In Sauadagar Percek’s song
lyrics simile is used to afford imaginative pleasure, personification and paradox
is used to say much in a brief compas, while in hyperbole is to add emotional
intensity. In Selaq Bonga’s song lyrics, metaphor is used to add emotional
intensity.
Key Words: Stylistics, Figurative Language, Song, and Lyrics.