An analysis on figurative language used in The Lyrics of Scorpions Songs in The Gold (Ultimate Collection) Album

ABSTRACT

Literature is creative and imaginative work of art either spoken or written. It consists of three branches, namely, drama, prose, and poetry. Poem can be expressed in a song to show people’s deep feeling. It consists of words, figurative, theme and subject, rhyme, sound, form and structure, meter and rhyme. Song is a poem that is voiced and sung by solo or in-group with music.

The research is intended to find out the figurative language used in the Scorpions’ songs and to identify the diction that are used in Scorpions’songs. In analyzing scorpions’ songs, the writer used descriptive-qualitative methods because it is reported the result by means of detailed description, direct quotes from causality, universal laws, and prediction and control. The steps of collecting data the writer did in this study are listening all of the music, reading the text and understanding the meaning of the lyrics, choosing the data dealing with the figurative language, which is going to be investigated, selecting the data dealing with the purposes of this study, and observing the words in the lyrics of “Gold-The Ultimate Collection” Scorpions’ songs album.

The result of this study is in the lyrics of Scorpions’ songs I found some kinds of figurative language expressions. The figurative languages used in Scorpions’ songs are allegory, alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, personification, repetition, simile, symbol, and synecdoche. Dealing with the second research problem is diction; I found connotative meaning words in some songs and there are no any connotative meanings words in their songs that used simple words.

Finally, the writer suggested the readers, students, and researchers who are interested in analyzing the similar topic to be able to develop this study by analyzing different point of view because there are still many elements that have not been analyzed yet, such as the basic verification and the elements.