FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE APPLIED IN MELANIE MARTINEZ’S K-12 ALBUM

Anisa Safira Darmawan, Agnes Widyaningrum

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This research paper is focused to find figurative language in the lyrics of the song "K - 12" by Melanie Martinez. The researcher uses Perrine’s theory to find out the most dominant types of figurative language, implied meaning, and the type of figurative language.  This study is a descriptive study by applying text oriented approach in this research to obtain the require d data.  The song lyrics are categorized into 7 types of figurative languages, and interpreted to find the implied meaning of it. There are 7 types of figurative language used in the lyrics of   the   song   "K - 12"   by   Melanie   Martinez   with   a   total   of   7   metaphor, 2 personifications, 7 hyperboles, 8 imageries, 8 ironies, 5 symbol, and 2 paradoxes.

 

Keywords : Perrine’s figurative language, literature, song lyric, text-oriented approach, Melanie Martinez K-12 album


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Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2016). Metaphors We Live By. In University of Chicago Press.

Martinez, Melanie. K-12. Atlantic Records, 2019.

Perrine, L. (1977). Sound and sense: An introduction to poetry. Harcourt Brace

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Perrine, L. (1982). Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (4th ed.). New York:

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Pfeiffer, W. S., & Perrine, L. (1978). Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. The South Central Bulletin, 38(2), 44.

Pinker, S., 2015. The sense of style: The thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century (No. 10). Penguin Books.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.56444/lime.v5i01.5248

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