The Analysis of Figurative Language Found in the Song Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s Album Divide and Its Application in Teaching Vocabulary at Eleventh Grade of Senior High School
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2019-08-07
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Prodi. PBI, FKIP, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo
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Panji Budi Wibowo. The Analysis of Figurative Language Found in the Song
Lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s Album Divide and Its Application in Teaching Vocabulary
at Eleventh Grade of Senior High School. S1 Thesis. English Language
Education, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University
of Purworejo. 2019.
The aims of this study are (1) to find out the types and the meaning of
figurative language found in Ed Sheeran’s song lyrics in the album entitled Divide
(2) to describe the application of figurative language in Ed Sheeran’s song lyrics
in the album entitled Divide in teaching vocabulary.
In this research, the data are taken from song lyrics in album Divide by
Ed Sheeran. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative research because the
researcher describes the figurative language found in the song lyrics and explains
the meaning of each figurative language used in song lyrics in the album entitled
Divide by Ed Sheeran. The researcher used documentation method to collect the
data.
The result of this study shows that there are 11 types of figurative
language in album Divide by Ed Sheeran. Those are 13 of simile (23.2%), 10 of
metaphor (17.9%), 4 of personification (7.1%), 7 of overstatement (12.5%), 4 of
metonymy (7.1%), 5 of irony (8.9%), 1 of synecdoche (1.8%), 2 of paradox
(3.6%), 3 of understatement (5.4%), 2 of imagery (3.6%), and 5 of symbol (8.9%).
The most dominant of figurative language found in Ed Sheeran’s album Divide is
simile. It is appropriate for the song lyrics in Ed Sheeran’s album Divide to be
applied in teaching vocabulary for students at eleventh grade of Senior High
School. The researcher suggests the teacher use song lyrics as media in teaching
learning.
Keywords: Figurative language, song lyrics, album, teaching vocabulary