THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN NAVICULA SELECTED SONG LYRICS

Abstract

This research is intended to identify the type and analyze the meaning of figurative language used in the "Navicula" song lyrics. The data were obtained from seven songs by Navicula entitled: “Tomcat”, “Love Bomb”, “Refuse for forget”, "Days of war night of love", “sail on”, "Harimau Harimau", “Do it yourself is dead, Now we Do It Together”. The method of collecting data in this study was observation method by listening, reading, and note taking the lyrics that contain figurative language. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method in analysing the data. This study applied the theory of types of figurative language from Perrine (1963) and the theory from Leech (1981) to analyze the meaning of figurative language. Out of the 12 types of figurative language proposed by Perrine, only five types of figurative languages were found, namely; metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolic, and irony. Those figurative languages carried some meanings which were connotative, referential, and figurative meaning.