THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SHAWN MENDES’ SONG LYRICS

Abstract

This Final Project focuses on analyzing the figurative language contained in the lyrics of Shawn Mendes’ song on the Illuminate album. The aim of this research is; 1) To find out the types of figurative language contained in the lyrics of the Shawn Mendes song on the Illuminate album. 2) To find out the non-literal meaning of the figurative language contained in the lyrics of the Shawn Mendes song on the Illuminate album. 3) To find out the contribution of Shawn Mendes’ song lyrics on this album Illuminate for poetry learning. Researchers conducted qualitative research using document analysis as data.The results showed that (1) There are many types of figurative language in the lyrics of the Shawn Mendes song on the Illuminate album. In fifteen songs there are 58 lyrics that contain figurative language, namely Onomatopoeia 10 lyrics (17.24%), Hyperbole 14 lyrics (24.14%), Repetition 9 lyrics (15.52%), Simile 13 lyrics (22.41%) ), Personification 3 lyrics (5.17%), Irony 3 lyrics (5.17%), Metaphor 1 lyrics (1.72%), Symbol 4 lyrics (6.91%), and parallelism 1 lyrics (1.72 %). (2) The non-literal meaning in this album is that the songwriter wants to convey expressions of breakups with very heartrending lyrics. (3) The contribution of the lyrics to this song in teaching poetry is the use of creative and attractive media for the teacher or lecturer for learning poetry so that students do not get bored doing the assignments given by the lecturer or teacher, and also the use of song as the learning media has a positive impact on studens.Based on the research results of this final project, the researcher suggests teaching students with interesting and creative media for learning poetry.