An Analysis of Figurative Language Used By Adele And Taylor Swift’s Selected Song
Abstract
This article focuses to analyze of figurative language in the song albums of Adele and Taylor Swift’s.. The writers propose two statements of problem those are; what are figurative languages in Adele and Taylor Swift’s song, and what is the dominant form of figurative language used by Adele and Taylor Swift. The writer uses qualitative method in this research. Finally, the writer found 23 figurative languages from Adele’s song and 22 figurative languages from Taylor Swift song. They are metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole, paradox, irony, symbol and synecdoche. The dominant form of figurative language by Adele and Taylor Swift is Personification that belongs to comparative figurative language.
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