INVESTIGATING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE SONG LYRICS OF PAMUNGKAS “FLYING SOLO” ALBUM

Abstract

Figurative language is one method for adding more lovely words and rich meaning to languages (Damayanti, 2018). However, figurative language often makes the listeners have a different interpretation. This problem occurs because figurative language cannot be understood and interpreted literally. The reason is that figurative language is used as an indicator to get the word's special meaning (Abrams, 1999). This research provides an overview of figurative language in song lyrics and its meaning. This research is entitled Investigating Figurative Language in the Song Lyrics of Pamungkas "Flying Solo" Album. The aims of this research are to classify some types of figurative language in Pamungkas' "Flying Solo" album and to interpret its meaning. The qualitative applied was used in this research along with a descriptive analysis reaching to provide analytic descriptions of the research topics. The object of this research is the song lyrics in "Flying Solo" album by Pamungkas. There are 11 songs from the "Flying Solo" album were used as the research's objects and data sources. This research uses the theory proposed by Kennedy (1983) about types of figurative language and Leech (1981) about meanings. There are seven different types of figurative language have found: metonymy, hyperbole, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. Hyperbole is the most common type of figurative language used in Pamungkas' "Flying Solo" album. This album used a lot of figurative language that describes feeling about love. It indicates that this album made an effort to creatively portray the feeling or idea by using figurative language.