AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOUND IN COLDPLAY SELECTED SONG LYRICS

This study intended to analyze figurative language found in the Coldplay selected song lyrics. The objectives of this research are to find out types of figurative language and their meanings in Coldplay selected song lyrics. There were two theories used in this research, such as; the first theory proposed by Knickerbocker and Reninger (1974) used to find out types of figurative language found in Coldplay selected song lyrics , and the second theory proposed by Leech (1981) used to find out the meaning of figurative language found in Coldplay selected song lyrics. The method used in collecting the data was observation method. The data were collected by browsing and downloading song lyrics from the internet, reading and understanding song lyrics and taking note and classifying the phrase and senteces that contain of figurative language. The data were analyzed descriptively by using qualitative method. After analyzing the sentences in the song lyrics, it was found several finding of figurative language found in Coldplay selected song lyrics. There were six types of figurative language that found in the song Coldplay selected song lyrics, they were 9 of simile (32,14%), 2 of metaphor (7,14%) 2 of metonymy (7,14%), 13 of hyperbole (46,42%), 1 of personification (3,5%), and 1 of allusion (3,5 %). There were three of meanings found from seven types of meanings, they were connotative meaning, conceptual meaning and affective meaning.