Figurative Language Found in the Song Lyric by Nightwish “Wishmaster” Album and its Contribution to Teaching Poetry

Abstract

The aims of this research are to find out kinds of figurative language used in this album. The analysis was to describe the meaning of each figurative language in lyrics album, and it was also to know the contributions of this album for poetry teaching. This research contained analysis result on lyrics by Nightwish ”Wishmaster” including the analyses on the kind and explicit meaning of figurative languages. This analysis used a qualitative research approach. There were totally 8  songs that were analyzed. The result of the songs analysis showed that there were contains of 7 figurative languages such as personification, Irony, metonymy, repetition, metaphor, hyperbole, and simile that reflect phrases. The figurative languages that the writer founds contain 6 personifications, 1 irony, 1 metonymy, 1 metaphor, 1 repetition, 11 hyperboles, and 4 simile