A Figurative Language in The Selected Songs from The Tortured Poets Department Album

Abstract

This research is aimed to analyses kind of figurative language, the meaning each figurative language, and the function of figurative language consists in Taylor Swift song lyric based on findings using the theory of Arp and Johnson. Using qualitative descriptive method through the analysis is focused in answering the statement of problem, applied the theories that related through the findings of figurative language. From the result of research, the writer concluded the types of figurative language found in the selected song is simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony and metonymy. The function of figurative language that the writer found is to provide imaginative pleasure, to talk a lot in a short compass, and to add emotional intensity. Metaphor is the most frequently appears from the 23 data, and based on the meaning analyses to provide imaginative pleasure is the most common function used in the selected song. The use of figurative language is to deepens the emotional resonance of the song and to describe the complexity and the intensity of the author emotional experience to making it relatable and impactful for the reader’s imagination.

Keywords: Figurative Language, Figurative Language Analyses,Song Analyses