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Figurative Language Used in One Direction’s Album Entitled Up All Night

2018; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

Tira Nur Fitria,

Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies

The aims of this study were to know the types of figurative language and to know the most dominant figurative language used in lyrics One Direction’s album song entitled Up All Night. The research was qualitative descriptive to describe the analysis factually, accurately and systematically. The data in this research include the phrases or the sentences which were found in lyric album song entitled Up All Night by One Direction. Based on research finding, there were some figurative languages in One Direction’s album Up All Night. There were 13 songs in this album, they were: 1) Everything About You, 2) Gotta Be You, 3) I Want, 4) I Wish, 5) More Than This, 6) One Thing, 7) Same Mistakes, 8) Save You Tonight, 9) Stole My Heart, 10) Taken, 11) Tell Me a Lie, 12) Up All Night and 13) What Makes You Beautiful. Based on the result of this research, it was found six types of figurative language in One Direction’s album entitled Up All Night, that were repetition, parallelism, personification, metaphor, simile, and hyperbole. The most dominant type of figurative language used was repetition in 50 lyrics both anaphora and epiphora.