The analysis of Figurative Language in Nicole’s album by Niki.

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to find the types of figurative language in Niki's song lyrics on Nicole's album and the most dominant types of figurative language in Niki's song lyrics on Nicole's album. The method used is the Descriptive Qualitative Method. The data of this study is the song lyrics that underline and contain Figurative language. The data source for this study is Nicole Albums, released on 11 August 2022. The data for this research are the song lyrics of five songs taken at random by Niki, which are "Backburner," "Anaheim," "Oceans & Engines," "On the Drive Home," and "Take a Chance with Me." The researcher took song lyrics as the data source from a website: https://youtu.be/cWRncduPSxo?si=PzAeSPXKlcSRBuhy. The instruments of this research are observation and documentation. The researcher used the theory of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana 2014 to analyze the data and obtained the results that in Nicole's album, there were types of figures of speech found, namely eight types of figures of speech from the 14 types of figures of speech proposed by Wibisono & Widodo 2019, the eight types of Figurative Language are five alliteration, 10 Hyperbole, 14 Metaphor, 3 Simile, 4 Symbol, 3 Personification, 1 Metonymy, 6 Irony. Moreover, the most dominant Figurative Language used in Nicole's albums is the type of metaphor, with its percentage calculations of 11 % of alliteration, 22% of Hyperbole, 30% of metaphor, 7% of Simile, 9% of Symbol, 7% of Personification, 2% of Metonymy, and the last 13% of Irony.