AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES FOUND ON THE ALBUM ENTITLED “WONDER” BY SHAWN MENDES

Abstrak

The objective of this study is to find the types of figurative language in the song lyrics on the album Wonder by Shawn Mendes. This study used descriptive qualitative methods to represent the data. The results of the figurative language analysis in the song lyrics on the album Wonder by Shawn Mendes indicated that there are seven types of figurative language found in the song lyrics. The types of figurative language are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, repetition, and imagery. The most common figurative language found is hyperbole as many as 18 data and the fewest type of figurative language found is personification, there is only 1 data. Other types of figurative language are 2 data of simile, 11 data of metaphor, 4 data of alliteration, 4 data of repetition, and 3 data of imagery. The most figurative language was found in the song “Monster” namely simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, and repetition. The song that found the fewest figurative language is the song “Wonder”, there is one type, it is repetition.