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Figurative language analysis on selected lyrics of ed sheeran’s songs

Rika Nurul Khotimah

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This thesis is entitled “Figurative Language Analysis on Selected Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s songs”. This study aims at analyzing kinds of figurative language and describing possible meaning of figurative found in Ed Sheeran’s songs. The lyrics are “Thinking out load”, “Lego House”, “Phptograph”, “The a Team” and “All of The Stars”. In this study, the writer uses the descriptive qualitative to analyze the objects. The theory used is theory of figurative language from Perrine (1995). The data analysis found five kinds of figurative language in the selected songs, those are; Personification, Paradox, Metaphor, Symbolism, Allegory, Simile and Hyperbole. The result of the study presented that the meaning of figurative language in the lyrics tells about life and love. Keywords : Literature, Poetry, Song and Figurative Language.

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This thesis is entitled “Figurative Language Analysis on Selected Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s songs”. This study aims at analyzing kinds of figurative language and describing possible meaning of figurative found in Ed Sheeran’s songs. The lyrics are “Thinking out load”, “Lego House”, “Phptograph”, “The a Team” and “All of The Stars”. In this study, the writer uses the descriptive qualitative to analyze the objects. The theory used is theory of figurative language from Perrine (1995). The data analysis found five kinds of figurative language in the selected songs, those are; Personification, Paradox, Metaphor, Symbolism, Allegory, Simile and Hyperbole. The result of the study presented that the meaning of figurative language in the lyrics tells about life and love. Keywords : Literature, Poetry, Song and Figurative Language.

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This thesis is entitled “Figurative Language Analysis on Selected Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s songs”. This study aims at analyzing kinds of figurative language and describing possible meaning of figurative found in Ed Sheeran’s songs. The lyrics are “Thinking out load”, “Lego House”, “Phptograph”, “The a Team” and “All of The Stars”. In this study, the writer uses the descriptive qualitative to analyze the objects. The theory used is theory of figurative language from Perrine (1995). The data analysis found five kinds of figurative language in the selected songs, those are; Personification, Paradox, Metaphor, Symbolism, Allegory, Simile and Hyperbole. The result of the study presented that the meaning of figurative language in the lyrics tells about life and love. Keywords : Literature, Poetry, Song and Figurative Language.

Key concepts: Literal and figurative language, Lyrics, Simile, Hyperbole, Synecdoche, Linguistics, Meaning (existential), Metaphor

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