scholarly journals Analysis of Figurative Language and Imagery in Taylor Swift's Songs

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Sari Rishita Siallagan ◽  
Sulastri Manurung ◽  
Juwita Boneka Sinaga
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this research is to find out the kinds of figurative language and imagery in the song lyrics of Taylor Swift’s “1989” Album. Furthermore, in this research the researcher used qualitative descriptive method. The result of the study is presented in the form of paragraphs. The researcher analyzed the songs by reading them intensively and giving attention for each line. After that, the researcher examined the figurative language and imagery of the songs lyrics. After investigating the sentence in the songs lyrics, the researcher found eight kinds of figurative languages that are used in the songs lyrics, they are personification, metaphor, hyperbole, simile, oxymoron, allusion, litotes and metonymy. Six kinds of imagery also used in the songs lyrics, they are visual imagery, auditory imagery, organic imagery, kinesthetic imagery, tactile imagery and olfactory imagery. The most dominant of figurative language used is personification and the dominant imagery used is visual imagery. Keywords: figurative language, imagery, lyrics

scholarly journals IMAGERY IN SONG LYRICS OF ALICIA KEYS

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Unpris Yastanti ◽  
Dewi Safitri
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Analyze Data

 The objective of this study is to identify kinds of imagery on songs lyric of Alicia Keys. This study used descriptive method to analyze data.  Recorder songs lyrics of Alicia Keys were served as resources of data and imagery reflected in the lyrics was promoted as data of this study.  The study revealed the following findings: (1) imagery was deserved in three lyrics of Alicia Keys: Girl on Fire, Superwoman, and A Woman’s Worth, (2) Kinds of imagery in the three lyrics songs included: auditory imagery, kinesthetic imagery, visual imagery and organic imagery and the forming is about a woman life, (3)  Message of  songs figured out upon a woman’s life, suggesting a  woman should undertake real struggle and never gave up at whatever occurred in life.  

scholarly journals The Analysis of Figurative Language in Coldplay’s Parachutes Album

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Amelia Yuli Astuti ◽  
Widia Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Research Show

Figurative language is language that uses various kinds of figures. Figurative language is a form of using language in the form of a comparison or parable. This research analyze figurative language in Coldplay's song lyrics. The data source is taken from all song lyrics of Parachutes album by Coldplay. The purposes of this research are: (1) to describe the types of figurative language found in Coldplay song lyrics, (2) to explain the meaning of figurative language contained in the selected song lyrics, and (3) to find out the types of figurative language is dominantly used in Coldplay song lyrics. This research uses qualitative descriptive method. The data analysis of this research is to follow the following steps: selecting songs that contain figurative language, identifying types of figurative language by reading carefully, classifying types of figurative language from the data, and making conclusions. The results of this research show that the total number of figurative languages used in the lyrics of the song parachutes Coldplay is 35 types of figurative language. Which consists of: 2 simile, 3 repetition, 9 metaphor, 8 hyperbole, and 13 rhetoric. The type of figurative language most dominantly is rhetoric.

scholarly journals Black Feminism Interpretation in Maya Angelo's Poems with Figurative Language and Imaginary Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heni Alghaniy Maulidina
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Female Poets ◽  
Descriptive Method

Poetry is one type of literary work that has characteristics and characteristics makes it different from other literary works. Currently there are many poems written using the experience of discrimination as an object due to various conditions appearing in society. Besides that, there are also many female poets who writing poetry using a feminist approach. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of figurative language and images related to Maya Angelou in black feminism in her poetry. It also analyzes the influence of Maya Angelou's black feminist thought reflected in her poetry through figurative words and images. In this qualitative study, the authors use a descriptive method through several steps, preparation, data collection, and data analysis. The focus of this research is the analysis of figurative language, types of images, and black feminism in Maya Angelo's poems. The figurative language and imagination used in the poems are diverse, such as metaphor, personification, paradox, symbol, irony, irony, visual imagery, and auditory imagery.  In this analysis it can be concluded that black feminism movement are courageous, brave and outspoken.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF IMAGERY IN FIVE SELECTED POEMS BY MAYA ANGELOU

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Siti Angreini Arbi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery

This research is qualitative descriptive research that analyzes five selected poems of Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, When I Think about My Self and the last is Alone”. The researcher used qualitative method and structural approach to know what kinds of imagery that used in five selected poems by Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, When I Think about My Self and the last is Alone”. Then, the data were collected from five poems selected by Maya Angelou. In the process analyzed, the researcher read the poem “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, When I Think About My Self and the last is Alone” and using five steps based on the technique of analyzing the data by using structural approach to find what kinds of imagery that used in poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, When I Think About My Self and the last is Alone” by Maya Angelou. Then based on the result of this analyzed, the researcher found there are four types of imagery that Maya Angelou used in his poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, When I Think About My Self and the last is Alone” Those are visual imagery, auditory imagery, tactile imagery, gustatory imagery and last is kinesthetic imagery, but the kinds of imagery that very dominant used is auditory imagery. Keywords: Poetry, Imagery, Method and Approach

scholarly journals KAJIAN STILISTIKA DALAM NOVEL SANG PEMIMPI KARYA ANDREA HIRATA (THE STUDY OF STYLISTICS IN SANG PEMIMPI NOVEL WRITTEN BY ANDREA HIRATA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Susiana Herliati
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Motion Imagery ◽  
The World ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Descriptive Method

AbstractThe Study of Stylistics in Sang Pemimpi Novel Written by Andrea Hirata. The study of stylists in thenovel of Sang Pemimpi of Andrea Hirata presents an excellent story about young business to achievedreams but still adheres to traditions and religions with all the “juvenile delinquency of the world”, aswell as the hard work of achieving dreams that have been declared. How is the use of figurative languagein the novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata which includes: (1) figurative speeches for comparison,(2) figurative speeches for conflicts, (3) figurative speeches for relationships, (4) figurative speeches forrepetition and how the imagery contained in the novel Sang Pemimpi Andrea Hirata which includes: (1)visual imagery, (2) auditory imagery, (3) kinesthetic imagery, (4) motion imagery, (5) olfactory imagery,(6) gustatory imagery, (7) experiences related to nature 8) the souls related to the senses. This research usesdescriptive method. The reason for using this method because based on its characteristics, this methodis oriented to the effort of obtaining information about certain phenomena systematically, factually andaccurately based on the facts obtained from the object of study. Descriptive method is a problem-solvingprocedure that is done by describing or describing the state of the object of research based on existingfacts. Thus, the results of the above research have two topics that have not been achieved because theresults are not there as in figurative language or style of language as in the case of contradictions that iseksimoron or style of language that use the word opposite the word is not found, as well as on the imageryof the novel The Dreamer also did not find the results of the data, while the other data has a number ofdifferent according to the results found in the novel text of the leader of Andrea Hirata’s work.Key words: stylistics, figure of speech, imageryAbstrakKajian Stilistika dalam Novel Sang Pemimpi Karya Andrea Hirata. Kajian stilistika dalam novel SangPemimpi Karya Andrea Hirata memaparkan cerita yang sangat baik tentang usaha muda untuk meraihmimpi tetapi tetap menaati tradisi dan agama dengan segala “kenakalan dunia remaja”, sekaligus kerjakeras meraih mimpi yang telah dicanangkan. Bagaimanakah penggunaan bahasa figuratif dalam novelSang Pemimpi karya Andrea Hirata yang meliputi: (1) majas perbandingan, (2) majas pertentangan, (3)majas pertautan, (4) majas perulangan dan Bagaimanakah citraan (imagery) yang terdapat dalam novelSang Pemimpi karya Andrea Hirata yang meliputi: (1) citraan penglihatan, (2) citraan pendengaran,(3) citraan rabaan, (4) citraan gerak, (5) citraan penciuman, (6) Pencecapan, (7) Pengalaman berkaitandengan alam, dan (8) jiwa berkaitan dengan indera. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif.Adapun alasan menggunakan metode ini karena berdasarkan karakteristiknya, metode ini berorientasi93pada upaya pemerolehan informasi tentang fenomena-fenomena tertentu secara sistematis, faktual,dan akurat berdasarkan fakta yang didapat dari objek kajian. Metode deskriptif merupakan prosedurpemecahan masalah yang dilakukan dengan menggambarkan atau mendeskripsikan keadaan objekpenelitian berdasarkan fakta-fakta yang ada. Dengan demikian, hasil penelitian di atas tersebut adadua topik yang belum dicapai karena hasilnya tidak ada seperti pada bahasa figuratif atau gaya bahasaseperti pada majas pertentangan yaitu aksimoron atau gaya bahasa yang mempergunakan kata yangberlawanan kata tidak ditemukan, begitu pula pada pencitraan pencecapan pada novel Sang Pemimpijuga tidak ditemukan hasil data tersebut, sedangkan data yang lainnya memiliki jumlah yang berbedabedasesuai dengan hasil yang ditemukan pada teks novel Sang Pemimpin karya Andrea Hirata tersebut.Kata-kata kunci: stilistika, majas, citraan

scholarly journals Imagery in Song Lyrics of Taylor Swift

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Unpris Yastanti ◽  
Susilawati Susilawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purposes of this research are to identify the kind of imagery in Taylor Swift song lyrics, how Taylor Swift describes imagery in her song lyrics, and dominant imagery in Taylor Swift song lyrics. This research limited to three songs in the “Reputation” album, those songs are Look What You Made Me Do, Delicate, Gorgeous. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The results of this research indicate that (1) There are five kinds of imagery, they are visual imagery, auditory imagery, kinesthetic imagery, tactile imagery, and organic imagery in Taylor Swift song lyrics. There are nine visual imagery, one auditory imagery, three kinesthetic imagery, two tactile imagery, 19 organic imagery, and thus the writers found 34 imagery in three song lyrics of Taylor Swift. (2) Taylor Swift prefers to describe feelings, thought, and opinions into song lyrics, therefore the writers found a lot of organic imagery in the song lyrics. (3) There is 19 organic imagery in song lyrics, which is the dominant imagery in the song lyrics of Taylor Swift.      

scholarly journals Figurative Language in The Song Lyrics of Passenger’s Album “All the Little Lights”

HUMANIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
I Gede Agus Krisna Permana ◽  
I Ketut Wandia ◽  
I Made Rajeg
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Affective Meaning ◽  
Dead Metaphor ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Informal Method ◽  
Conceptual Meaning ◽  
Descriptive Method

Figurative language can appear in various types and the meaning may not be determined by its components. This study aims to identify and analyze the meaning of figurative language found in the song lyrics “Passenger's album all the little lights”. There are two theories used in this study. The first is the theory of figurative language proposed by Knickerbocker and Reninger, and the second is the theory of meaning by Leech as the supporting theory. The data in this study were directly taken from Passenger’s fourth album. The album consists of twelve songs. They were collected by documentation method and note taking technique. The collected data were analyzed  using qualitative and descriptive method. This study applied informal method to present the analysis. The result of this study shows that there are nine types of figurative language found in song lyrics. They were allusion, simile, metaphor, irony, personification, hyperbole, dead metaphor, metonymy, and paradox. Most of the figurative expressions found in those songs were similes. Four out of seven types of meaning used in those lyrics in order to understand the figurative meaning in the song lyrics; they were connotative meaning, conceptual meaning, affective meaning, and collocative meaning. All the songs which are analyzed have the main theme about life and love.

scholarly journals Ketaksaan Leksikal dalam Lagu “Glow Like Dat” dan “See Me” Karya Rich Brian

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Frans Sayogie ◽  
Angga Ilham Perdana ◽  
Munawar Aidil ◽  
Shania Andre
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Descriptive Method

Tulisan ini membahas tentang ketaksaan leksikal dalam lagu “Glow Like Dat” dan “See Me” karya Rich Brian. Ketaksaan leksikal dalam lagu  dapat menyebabkan penyampaian pesan mengalami kendala pemaknaan budaya, bahasa, sosiologis, dan psikologis. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi bentuk leksikal yang digunakan di dalam lagu  tersebut apakah mengandung ketaksaan leksikal, dan kemudian menganalisis bentuk ketaksaan leksikal  dan makna kata-kata  dalam lirik lagu. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah  metode deksriptif kualitatif  dan metode non-participant observation sebagai teknik pengumpulan data. Data yang dianalisis diambil dari lirik lagu “Glow Like Dat” dan “See Me” karya Rich Brian yang kemudian diklasifikasikan ke dalam beberapa kategori ketaksaan leksikal dan pemaknaannya.  Temuan penelitian yang diperoleh adalah ketaksaan leksikal yang terdapat di dalam lagu  “Glow Like Dat” dan “See Me” karya Rich Brian dapat diklasifikasikan sebagai homonimi berbentuk homofon, serta polisemi yang dikemas dalam bentuk kata slang. Kesimpulan penelitian ini adalah pemahaman terhadap pemaknaan leksikal dalam lagu berbahasa Inggris  sangat penting  bagi penutur bukan berbahasa Inggris agar memperoleh pemahaman makna lagu yang komprehensif. This paper discusses lexical ambiguities in the songs "Glow Like Dat" and "See Me" by Rich Brian. Lexical ambiguities of the songs can cause the delivery of messages to experience constraints of meanings in cultural, language, sociological, and psychological aspects. The purpose of this study is to identify the lexical forms used in the songs whether they contain lexical ambiguities, and then to analyse the lexical ambiguities forms and meaning of words in song lyrics. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method and a non-participant observation method as data collection techniques. The data analysed were taken from the lyrics of the songs "Glow Like Dat" and "See Me" by Rich Brian, which were then classified into several categories of lexical ambiguities and their meaning. The research findings obtained are the lexical ambiguities contained in the songs "Glow Like Dat" and "See Me" by Rich Brian can be classified as homonymy in the form of homophones and polysemy which are packaged in slang words.  The conclusion of this study is that the understanding of lexical meanings in English songs is very important for non-English speakers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the meaning of the songs.

scholarly journals The Meaning of Denotation, Connotation, and Myth used in Ariana Grande’s "God is a Woman" Song Lyrics

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jafar ◽  
La Aso ◽  
Neil Amstrong
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Descriptive Method

Ariana Grande was determined to be a light on her song lyrics and no one has needed that light more than Ariana Grande herself. Her song Lyrics were loaded with deep meanings. Ariana Grande sung about relationships, love, and dating, and through it all, there were moments of meaning spread throughout. The lyric writer wanted to suggest a certain mood or emotion. This study focused on God is a woman song Lyrics. The writer took song lyrics as primary data and used qualitative descriptive method that explained descriptively how the meaning used in Ariana Grande’s God is a woman song lyrics. The theory used in the study is semiotics, in particular, is the theory used by Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes developed his theory into two levels, namely Denotation as the first level in the sign, connotation as the second level in the sign which is accompanied by a myth (marking a society). The result of this study based on Roland Barthes Semiotic’s theory in a way of denotative it is about sex and how she claims the chemistry will be so incredible that the guy is going to think she is God and in a way of connotative Ariana Grande campaigned for a struggle for gender equality and she showed off women's energy and independence. While the myth is God is a woman which this sentence represents about gender differences in life. The answer to dismantling patriarchy is not raising a matriarchy in its place. But building our understanding of, as Ariana Grande puts it, "God as a woman," will help counterbalance almost every human's internalized beliefs that our creator is a man, a father, a guy in the sky. God is our mother, our father, our parents. Come to think of it, if God can be referred to with the masculine pronoun “he”, why is not okay for us to also used the female pronoun “she” when referring to God.

scholarly journals ROMANTIKA KESEDERHANAAN DALAM NOVEL HUJAN BULAN JUNI KARYA SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO: KAJIAN STILISTIKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-183
Author(s):  
Dhea Rizka Noor Aliefta ◽  
Mulyono Mulyono ◽  
Maharani Intan Andalas IRP
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Love Life ◽  
Creating Meaning ◽  
Romance Novel ◽  
Descriptive Method

Sapardi adalah seorang sastrawan yang memiliki nilai keromantisan yang tinggi. Dalam novelnya yang berjudul Hujan Bulan Juni, menggambarkan romantika kesederhanaan mengenai konflik liku-liku kehidupan percintaan yang dialami kedua tokoh yang dibantu tokoh-tokoh lainnya, konflik tersebut dapat diteliti menggunakan gaya bahasa melalui pendekatan stilistika dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui romantika kesederhanaan melalui gaya bahasa dalam novel tersebut serta untuk mengetahui fungsi gaya bahasa yang mengungkapkan keseluruhan maknanya. Novel Hujan Bulan Juni merupakan novel serius, karena menggambarkan perjalanan kehidupan dan percintaan tokoh. Merupakan novel romansa, karena pengarang menggunakan bahasa-bahasa kiasan yang berbentuk narasi bersifat puitis. Gaya bahasa yang mengungkapkan romantika kesederhanaan terdapat empat gaya kalimat, empat gaya kata, bahasa figuratif dengan delapan permajasan, idiom, dan peribahasa, tiga citraan, dan sisipan sajak berfungsi sebagai penekanan antar tokoh, mewujudkan peristiwa, menciptakan makna, menghidupkan objek, suasana, dan alur.     Sapardi is a person who has high of romace value. In his novel, Hujan Bulan Juni, describe the romance of the simplicity of the conflict between the twists and turns of the love life experienced by the two figures assisted by other figures, the conflict can be examined using the style of language through a stylistic appoarch with qualitative descriptive method. This study aims to determine the romance of simplicity through the style of language in the novel as well as to know the function of language style the expresses the whole meaning. Hujan Bulan Juni novel is a serious novel, because it describes of journey of life and romance of a character. It is a romance novel, because the author uses figurative language in the form of narrative is poetic. The style of language that reveals romantic simplicity lies in four sentence styles, four word styles, figurative languages with eight rhimes, idioms, and proverbs, three images, and poet inserts functioning as intercultural emphases, realizing events, creating meaning, animating objects, plot.

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