AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SONG LYRIC OF SOLIPSISM ALBUM OF PAMUNGKAS

Abstract

Songs are one of the media to communicate or deliver a message created by a song’s writer to listeners. A lot of people like to listen to music. But, some people just listen without understanding the meaning of the song lyric especially the English song. This research study is about figurative language and song as a topic selection. The objectives of this research are divided into three parts. First, this study is to find out the types of figurative language in song lyrics of “Solipsism” album by Pamungkas. The second, to know the meaning of each figurative language, and the last is to know the most dominant figurative language. Figurative language is a language that uses figures of speech to way saying something. The research method is a descriptive qualitative method. The writer uses documentation analysis to collect the data. This research used theory from Kennedy and other sources were put to an understanding of linguistics context. The researcher focuses on analyzing 11 songs lyrically. After analyzing the data, the writer found nine types of figurative language such as Hyperbole, Litotes, Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Paradox, Irony, and Synecdoche. The most dominant of figurative languages used is hyperbole.