THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN MEGHAN TRAINOR’S ALBUM “TITLE”

Abstract

This research deals with the analysis of figurative language used in Meghan Trainor album “Title”. This research focus on what are types of figurative language used in song lyrics. The aims of this research are (1) What kinds of figurative language are found in Meghan Trainor’s songs? (2) What is the most dominant figurative language found in Meghan Trainor’s songs? (3) What messages are intended to convey in Meghan Trainor’s songs? The research method used in this study is qualitative research that is descriptive research. According to Creswell (2014) qualitative research is an approach for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or group ascribe to a social or human problem. The type of data that used in this research is a qualitative data. The data analyzed in the research are some written texts. The texts discuss is song taken from Meghan Trainor album “Title” song lyric. After analyzing the songs of Title song album, the result shows forty lyrics that used figurative language in all of songs. In this research, the researcher found twelve types of figurative language that used in songs lyric. There were five for metaphors, two for alliteration, two for litotes, two for anaphore, two for personification, eight for hyperbole, eight for simile, two for euphemism, one for assonance, one for symbol, three for idiomatic, and four for synecdoche. The most dominant of figurative language that used is hyperbole and simile. The research also found the message of each song. The result of this research will be able to give contribution to the readers who are interested in learning and understanding or interpreting those lyrics.