FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE SONG LYRIC OF GREEN DAY S ALBUM ENTITLED WARNING

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1 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE SONG LYRIC OF GREEN DAY S ALBUM ENTITLED WARNING BY I WAYAN JULIADI SASTRA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ARTS NON REGULAR PROGRAM UDAYANA UNIVERSITY DENPASAR 2015

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3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like express my greatest graditude to Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, the Almighty God, for everlasting blessing, therefore that I could finish this writting on time. I would like to express the deepest appreciations to Drs. I Gede Putu Sudana, M.A as my first supervisor and Sang Ayu Isnu Maharani, as my second supervisor for their guidance, Support, advice and patience those are given to me in completing this writing. Without teir persistant help this study would not have been possible. My sincere appreciation is extended to Dr. Ni Luh Kt. Mas Indrawati, Dip. TEFL, M.A as the Head of English Departement and to and to Drs. Yusuf Santoso, M.A. as my academix supervisor, all of the tremendous lecturers of English Departement for their assistance and intentios in giving me priceless knowledge throughout my academic years of study, and all staff members in Faculty of Letters and Cultures for their persitent help. my deepest appreciations are due to my parents, I Wayan Arta and Ni Wayan Arti, my sisters Kadek Indri Arista Devi and all of my famiy. I also dedicated this writing to all of my friends in KELUARGA BESAR HIMAPESI and friends in ST. JAYA KUSUMA, especially Hartomi Arya Franata, Anissa Erie estiana, Adi Sumanjaya, Ade Dimas for the greatest support and motiavation and also all of my friends in my collage mates in English Departement Non Reguler Program and those who cannot be mentioned one by one. Big thanks to my love Maretha Saraswati Rachmadewi for the appreciation, attention, affection and her support, and all of people who have been really helpfull that I cannot mention one by one, but you know who you are. Denpasar, January 2015 I Wayan Juliadi Sastra i

4 ABSTRACT This paper is entitled Figurative Language in the song lyric of Green Day s album entitled Warning. Song is one of the media used to express feeling, and it seems interesting to be analyzed because the word used are various. The combination of vocabulary is very unique. The languages used in a song usually has different meaning from ordinary language because the language used in the song is intendedfor specific purpose. A song was made to give amusement to listener. There are twelve songs in the Warning album, they arewarning, Blood sex and booze, Church on Sunday, Fashion victim, Castaway, Misery, Deadbeat Holiday, Hold on, Jackass, Waiting, Minority, Macy s Day Parade. This study is aimed to identify figurative language in the song lyrics of Green Day band and to find types of figurative language and their meaning. The data were taken directly from Green Day s song lyric entitled Warning as the data source. Documentary method was used to collect data. The technique used was note taking. The data presented descriptive qualitative.the theories applied by K. L. Knickerbocker and H. WilliardReninger (1963) and the second theory about meaning (semantics) by Leech (1979).The result of this study show that there are four kinds of figurative language: personification, hyperbole, simile, and irony. There are two kinds of meaning are conceptual meaning and connotative meaning. Keywords: Figurative language, Meaning, Song lyric, Green Day. ii

5 TABLE OF CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... i ABSTRACT...ii TABLE OF CONTENT...iii CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY PROBLEM OF STUDY AIMS OF STUDY SCOPE OF DISCUSSION RESEARCH METHOD Data Sources Method and Technique of Collecting Data Method and Technique of Presenting the Analyzing Data... 6 CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF LITERATURES, CONCEPT, AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK LITERATURE REVIEW CONCEPT Figurative Language Meaning Concept of song THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK iii

6 2.3.1 Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Personification Synecdoche Metonymy Hyperbole Irony Paradox Dead Metaphor Allusion Meaning Conceptual Meaning Connotative Meaning Stylistic Meaning Affective Meaning Reflective Meaning Collocative Meaning Thematic Meaning CHAPTER IIIFIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE SONG LYRIC OF GREEN DAY ENTITLED WARNING OVERVIEW TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE iv

7 3.2.1 Personification Hyperbole Simile Irony ANALYSIS OF MEANING Conceptual Meaning Connotative Meaning CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRA PHY APPENDIX iv