FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON “IN A PERFECT WORLD” ALBUM BY KODALINE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR POETRY TEACHING

Abstract

The aims of this research are to find out kinds of figurative language used in this album, the analysis also to describe the meaning of each figurative language in lyrics album, and also to know the contributions of this album for poetry teaching. This research contains analysis result on lyrics by Kodaline album. The analysis includes analyses on kind and explicit meaning of figurative languages. This analysis uses a qualitative research approach. There are totally 9 songs that are analyzed. These are then called as the data. Data obtained is analyzed using Perrine Lawrence’s theory. The result of 9 songs analysis showed that there are contains of 4 figurative languages such as personification, metaphor, hyperbole, and simile that reflect phrases. The figurative languages that the writer founds contain 5 personifications, 6 metaphors, 10 hyperboles, and 1 simile. This research founds total 189 words, 19 phrases, and 14 sentences from 6 songs of this album. The phrase ‘losing all my breath’ is hyperbole, it means this phrase defines the author’s feeling that he feels so fascinated by someone, until he feels like dying.