An Analysis of Figurative Language in the Album of Made in the A.M. by One Direction

ANDI NABILA NUR AZIZA. “An Analysis of Figurative Language in the Album of Made in the A.M. by One Direction” (Supervised by Husain Hasyim and Ainun Fatimah).
The objectives of this study are to analyze the types of figurative language in the album of Made in the A.M. by One Direction and to find out the frequency of each type of the figurative language.
The method used to conduct this research was descriptive qualitative. The writer collected the data by listed the songs included in the album of Made in the A.M. by One Direction, searched for the lyrics of each song on the internet, and listened to the songs one by one while reading the lyrics to make sure the lyrics are in place. After collected the data, the writer analyzed the data based on the theory of Gorys Keraf (2010).
The writer finds 23 types of figurative language that is used in the album of Made in the A.M by One Direction. They are alliteration (6 lyrics), allusion (2 lyrics), anastrophe (1 lyric), apophasis (2 lyrics), assonance (3 lyrics), asyndeton (2 lyrics), euphemism (1 lyric), hypallage (1 lyric), hyperbole (13 lyrics), hysteron (1 lyric), litotes (2 lyrics), metaphor (2 lyrics), metonymy (1 lyric), oxymoron (3 lyrics), paradox (4 lyrics), periphrasis (1 lyric), personification (3 lyrics), polysyndeton (6 lyrics), pun (2 lyrics), rhetoric (10 lyrics), simile (3 lyrics), synecdoche (4 lyrics), and tautology (1 lyric).
Keywords : Figurative Language, Song Lyrics