COMPARATIVE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOUND IN SELECTED SONG LYRICS OF JESSIE J

Abstract

This study focused on the types of comparative figurative language in selected song lyrics of Jessie J and their meaning. In resolving the problems of the study, this study used theory from Kennedy (1983) with the book entitled Literature: An Introduction to Fiction: poetry and Drama and the theory from Leech (1981) with the book entitled Semantic: The Study of Meaning. This study used the data source from the song lyrics of Jessie J. Documentation method was used to collect the data. The qualitative descriptive method has been used to describe the data to analyze the data, whereas formal and informal method has been used to present the finding. There was found 20 data from 6 selected song lyrics of Jessie J. The meaning of those 20 comparative figurative languages was described using Leech's theory (1981). There was found four types of meaning were found from the data. There are conceptual meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning and connotative meaning.