AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SELENA GOMEZ’S ALBUM ENTITLED “RARE”

The study aims to analyze the types of figurative language in the song lyrics of Selena Gomez album Rare. This study used the qualitative descriptive method to elaborate the type of the figurative language and the type meaning of the data that were taken from the Selena Gomez album Rare. The first theory, developed by Abrams (1999), was used to identify the different types of figurative language, while the second theory, developed by Leech (1981), was also used to examine the meaning of each figurative language identified in the Selena Gomez song lyrics. The result shows that there are six types of figurative language in 19 data, including 4 similes, 1 metaphors, 10 hyperbole, 2 paradox, 1 irony, and 1 personification. This study found 19 meanings in this album including 18 connotative meanings, and 1 affective meanings, that found in song lyrics from album Selena Gomez entitled Rare. This study indicates that the figurative language in the songs conveyed the listeners and readers to understand the message and the meaning by understanding the songs more deeply.