THE ANALYSIS OFFIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON KODALINE: COMING UP FOR AIR ALBUM

There are various ways of using a language including communication, the \nexpression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release. \nLanguage can be expressed through many things, one of which is through \nsongs.Language may be said to work in two broad dimensions namely literal and \nfigurative dimensions.Figurative dimension deals with the suggestive or \nconnotative use of language. Figurative language usually can be found in some \nliterary works such as poetry, song lyrics, script and fiction. It is used to create a \nspecial effect or feeling. The importance of studying and analyzing the figurative \nlanguage are for people to know meaning of the lyric songs because it is quite \nhard for people to know the meaning of figurative language without analyzing the \nkind and meaning in it. \nIn this study, the writer presents figurative language by Kodaline in their \nsecond album Coming up for air. Furthermore, the writer has two research \nproblems. Those are: what are the kinds of figurative language used in Kodaline’s \nsong lyrics in album Coming up for air and what are the meanings of each kind of \nfigurative language in Kodaline’s song lyrics in album Coming up for air? \nThis research focused on the types of figurative language that is used in \nKodaline songs and the figurative meaning in Kodaline’s songs. The writer used \nfigurative language theory by M.H. Abrams (2012) to analyze the types of \nfigurative language and to analyze the figurative meaning. In order to support this \nstudy, the writer used qualitative method to analyze each sentence in the song \nlyrics. \nThe result of this study is the writer found eight types of figurative \nlanguage in Kodaline’s songs. There are: metaphor, antithesis, personification, \nsimile, synecdoche, symbol, paradox, and hyperbole. The dominant figurative \nlanguage that is used in this album is metaphor. The least figurative languages that \nare used are synecdoche and paradox. The author used figurative language to \nproduce image in listeners’ mind to explain ideas, emotion, and images in a more \nbeautiful way than through plain language.