Abstract:
Language is very important in human life. It is used to communicate to
others. Song lyric is one of the examples of the literature. It is hard to understand
song lyrics because it often contains figurative languages. Figurative languages
are words or expressions whose meanings are different from their literal
meanings.
The objectives of this research are to find out the types of figurative
languages found in Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now and to describe the
application of figurative languages found in Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now in
teaching reading at the eleventh grade of Senior High School. In this research, the
data are taken from song lyrics in Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now. The
researcher uses description-qualitative research because the researcher wants to
explain its figurative languages found.
In collecting the data, the researcher searched the songs and the scripts.
Read and understood the song lyrics in Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now. While in
analyzing the data, the researcher identified the data based on the types of
figurative languages, classified the data based on the types of figurative
languages, discussing selected the data, described the application of figurative
languages found in Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now in teaching reading, and
made conclusion and suggestion.
The result of this study shows there are six types of figurative languages in
Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now. There are 18 hyperboles (37,5%), 12 similes
(25%), 11 symbols (22,92%), 5 personifications (10,42%), 1 metaphor (2,08%.),
and 1 synecdoche (2,08%.).
