Because figurative language is used in well-written lyrics, the song usually contains figurative language. The author will conduct a study titled "Analysis of Figurative Language in Willow Song Lyrics sung by Taylor. What types of figurative language are used in the song lyrics titled Willow By Taylor Swift.
What is the dominant figurative language used in the song Lyrics Entitled willow by Taylor Swift. To find out what type of figurative language is used in song lyric Titled willow by Taylor Swift. To find out the most dominant figurative language used in Willow Song Lyrics by Taylor Swift.
Analysis In this study we focus on the observation and analysis of figurative language which. Figurative language is language that uses figures of speech (a way of saying one thing and meaning another). Figurative language is a way of expressing with special language that shows the soul and personality of the writer.
According to Perrine in Yulidar (2014:2) figurative language is another way to add additional dimension to language.
Types of Figurative Language
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Symbol
- Apostrophe
- Synecdoche
- Metonymy
- Paradox
- Hyporbole
- Understatement
- Irony
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Onomatopoia
- Personification
According to Lubis (2017:4), a symbol is any object or action that represents something beyond itself. The symbol is the wealth and at the same time the most difficult of the poetic figures. For example: "he raised his rose" the meaning is making a promise, "he writes the letter with red ink" the meaning is anger.
Symbolism is the use of symbols to denote ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meaning that is different from their literal meaning. Synecdoche is the rhetorical figure in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole is a substitute for a part. Simply put, synecdoche is the use of a concrete noun, which is usually part of the larger whole, to replace the larger whole.
Subtract “the meaning is not always to cover all old ladies of their illness. For example, some want your love, so open the door " the meaning is to fall in love and ask a girl to accept his love. According to Lubis Metonymy is an expression in which one word or phrase stands for another , with which it is closely related.
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one thing is used to stand for itself. For example, 'he is rich but also poor', "it means he has a lot of money but he lacks good morals." The opinion is that the man had died when he was at the peak of his wealth, has a lot of money.
For example, “She ran out of the room in tears,” meaning she cries a lot. For example, "It rained a little more than normal," meaning an area is flooded after heavy rain. According to Brendan McGuigan, understatement is the rhetorical form in which the force of a descriptive statement is less than you would normally expect.
Irony is a figure of speech where the meaning is contrary to the words and it is free to explain several types of ironic utterances. According to Radana dan pratomo, alliteration is the repetition of a single letter of the alphabet or a combination of letters.
Categories of figurative language
Song’s
Lyirics
Previous of study
This research focuses on no one can save me, sorry, for now, talk to myself, heavy, and one more light. In another light song there are 4 figurative languages such as personification, hyperbole, repetition and parallelism. In the sorry for now song there are 3 figurative languages namely Hyperbole, Repetition and Synecdoche.
Radana Tulus Wibisono and Pratomo Widodo (2019) conducted a study entitled An Analysis Of Figurative Language Short Story Posted On The Jakarta Post. In this research, library research is used in the sense that the researcher visited the libraries to get the date. Thus, some previous study from year to year, having the same research object as this study, which analyzed the poem and figurative language, whether it is used in it, or similar literary works, such as a novel, a poem or an idiom.
The History of Taylor Swift
She has also been named American Music Awards Artist of the Year, In 2021 she will be Brith's global icon, as well as Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this writing, she is also the best-selling digital artist in music history. In addition to the above reason, the researchers have retrieved the artist because her songs have many hidden meanings, so the author wants to investigate more deeply to know the meaning.
Therefore, this study focused on figurative language commonly used in song lyrics and the meaning contained in song lyrics. Regarding the objectives of this study: types of figurative language used in Taylor Swift songs and the contextual meaning of the figurative language used in Taylor Swift lyrics.
The Conceptual Framework
Therefore, the writer explores the difficulty of understanding the figurative language of a song. so readers and listeners don't have the wrong perception of the song.
The Analysis Of Figurative Language In Willow Song Lyrics Sung By Taylor Swift
- Research Design
- The Source of Data
- Instrument of collecting data
- Procedure of collecting Data
- Technique of analyzing data
Descriptive Qualitative research is in a continuous process of dissemination with new approaches and methods appearing and according to Flick (2009:1) it is being incorporated into a core part of curriculum by more and more disciplines. The purpose of Descriptive Qualitative research is to systematically, factually and accurately describe a place, fact and characteristic of a population. The analysis in qualitative research is about understanding the result of finding data rather than calculating the result of data.
The data of this study are the song lyrics that underline that contain figurative language. The source of the data of this study is the studio album of Taylor Swift "Evermore" released on December 11, 2020. The data of this study are the song lyrics of five songs by Taylor Swift, are "willow, Tolerate It, Gold Rush, No Body, No Crime, and Evermore" the author takes the song lyrics as the data source of a website https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxrMpCMdYwk&list=OLAK5uy_mvSVOiV eY_z2lPgThmS6Nn0TJExXZtOg&index=2.
According to qualitative research, the human being is the best instrument for understanding the meaning that people give to the events in their lives. The author directly observed song lyrics sung by Taylor Swift. In this study, the author analyzed the song lyrics to find the figurative language used in that song and to find the most dominant of those figurative language usage. The procedure is very important in the study, the main procedure of course to measure to what extent the object of the author's research the song lyrics that author would use, understand and appreciate.
The author had written all the results, content analysis that the author finds in the study and classified all the statements included in each type of imagery. Classified the data according to the types of figurative, Apostrophe, Synecdoche, Metonymy, Paradox, Hyperbole, Understatement, Irony,. Made a percentage chart of the nine types of imagery determined to find out which is most dominant which is used in the five song song by taylor swift.
Checking data to gain confidence in the accuracy of data in qualitative research can be done by means of triangulation. Source triangulation is a technique for testing the reliability of data, this technique is done by checking data obtained from different sources. Time triangulation is a technique for testing the reliability of data which is done by collecting data at different times.
DATA
The Data
- Table Of Data
22 With your hair falling into place like dominoes 23 I see me padding across your hardwood floors 24 I call you out on your contrarian shit 25 it fades into the gray of my day old tea.
Analysis of Data
- Symbol
- Simile
