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THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON THE LYRICS OF WESTLIFE?S SELECTED SONGS

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Yulia Citra DevianaPrabowo : THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON THE LYRICS OF WESTLIFE?S SELECTED SONGS
Advisors : Drs.Budi Susatyo, M.Pd
Drs.Mansur, M.Pd
Key Words : Analysis, Figurative Language, Westlife?s, Song, Moral Message

Figurative language is a collection of poetic which provoke imagery, or expressions with a meaning which is not true. There are some categories in figurative is language those have been made by some experts. Figurative language usually used to make a lyric of song more interesting and unique. The formulations of the research problem were: 1) What kinds of figurative language used in selected lyrics of Westlife?s songs?, 2) What are the general meanings of lyrics on the Westlife?s selected songs?, 3) What are the messages of lyrics on the Westlife?s selected songs ? The purpose of this study were to: 1) To know the kinds of figurative language used in selected lyrics of Westlife?s song, 2) To know the general meaning of lyrics on the Westlife?s selected songs, 3) To know the messages of lyrics on the Westlife?s selected songs.
This study is qualitative research in form of documentary analysis. This research used descriptive text analysis method. It means the researchertry to analyze appearing fact or data by identifying or describing way. The technique of descriptive analysis offered to analyze data by reading the data, then identifying the figurative language used in the lyrics of song. After identifying some figurative language the researcher categorizes them into some kinds of figurative languages. Then, the researcher studies the general meaning of figurative language by identifying the lexical meaning and contextual meaning.
The result of this research is found figurative language such as hyperbole, personification, symbol, synecdoche, parallelism, litotes, para rhyme, repetition, and tautology in ?Soledad?, ?I Lay My Love On You?,I?m Already There?, ?Nothing?s Gonna To Change My Love On You?, ?Now And Forever?,?I Do?. Based on research finding, the writer found some figurative languages in the Westlife?s selected songs. We can know that most of figurative language which used in lyrics of Westlife?s selected songs is ?Hyperbole? that has a great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, and is used for expressive or comic effect.
Each lyric is the message of the each lyric are written and directed to the listeners and the readers.The message is directed with the intention that they get the impression after listening and reading the lyric. The lyrics of Westlife?s selected songs try to tell us about human social life which contained about love, sadness, happiness, spirit and others. From the explanation above can be concluded that in analysing lyrics besides finding figurative language in lyrics, we can also understand the meaning of song that contain figurative language, and message of the song.

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Tuban : Unirow., 2017

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