An Analysis Figurative Language Used In The Song Lyrics Album “Evermore” by Taylor Swift

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to ascertain the figurative language employed in Taylor Swift's song lyrics album evermore. And the purpose of this study is to 1) identify the types of figurative language used in Taylor Swift's album evermore's song lyrics, 2) determine the most prevalent types of figurative language used in Taylor Swift's album evermore's song lyrics, and 3) determine the contribution of using Taylor Swift's album evermore's song lyrics to teaching poetry. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. This study discovered figurative language utilized in Taylor Swift's song lyrics album evermore, including simile, personification, hyperbole, metaphor, synecdoche, symbolism, paradox, alliteration, metonymy, and antithesis. The most prevalent sort of figurative language in Taylor Swift's 10 song lyrics album evermore is hyperbole, which appears in 36 song lyrics and accounts for 40% of the lyrics. The researcher demonstrates that the poet writer wishes to transmit a message about love, and the songs' contents mostly express the author's feelings about marriages that do not end pleasantly due to adultery, and relationships that do not tolerate one another, all the way up to murder. The song's metaphorical language conveys her most profound emotion. The song's usage of figurative language is extensive, allowing the reader to discern the type of figurative language.