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AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOUNDON THE SONG LYRIC BY TAYLOR SWIFT’S “SPEAKNOW” ALBUM

Heny Listiani

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Abstract

This study concerns with the descriptive analysis of figurative language in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The objective of the study is to find out the types of figurative languages that is used in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method to classify and analyze the sentences. After investigating the sentence in the song lyric, the writer found several findings of figurative language on it. There are seven kinds of figurative languages that is used in the song lyric, they are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, symbol and oxymoron. The last is the dominant of figurative languages that used is hyperbole.

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This study concerns with the descriptive analysis of figurative language in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The objective of the study is to find out the types of figurative languages that is used in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method to classify and analyze the sentences. After investigating the sentence in the song lyric, the writer found several findings of figurative language on it. There are seven kinds of figurative languages that is used in the song lyric, they are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, symbol and oxymoron. The last is the dominant of figurative languages that used is hyperbole.

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This study concerns with the descriptive analysis of figurative language in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The objective of the study is to find out the types of figurative languages that is used in The Song Lyric by Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” Album. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method to classify and analyze the sentences. After investigating the sentence in the song lyric, the writer found several findings of figurative language on it. There are seven kinds of figurative languages that is used in the song lyric, they are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, symbol and oxymoron. The last is the dominant of figurative languages that used is hyperbole.

Key concepts: Hyperbole, Literal and figurative language, Oxymoron, Synecdoche, Simile, Swift, Metaphor, Linguistics

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