THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN BRUNO MARS’ SONGS A Thesis

FARID, ALFARIZI HABIB (2024) THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN BRUNO MARS’ SONGS A Thesis. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTACT This research aimed to identify the figurative language in Bruno Mars’ Songs lyric.. This research used a qualitative research method, collected data by reading and analyzing the lyricThe object of this research was Bruno Mars’ song lyrics. However, the research only chooses three songs to analyze, they were Grenade, Long distance, andTalking to the moon. The research conducted some the analysis through some steps: Identifying, classifying, and analyzing. The result of the study indicate there are three figurative language used by Bruno Mars. Only three types that have been found of figurative language – hyperbole, simile and personification. This could be stated that Bruno Mars preferred these three types of figurative language. Moreover, amongst these three preferences of types of figurative language, hyperbole turned to be the most favorable one for Bruno Mars when writing the lyrics of his songs. It is because hyperbole was the most commonly found in these three selected songs that had been analyzed. Despite this, these hyperboles were only detected in the song "Grenade," and not in the other two. In contrast, Bruno Mars has only employed simile and personification twice in the whole data set, which may be considered the least suitable figurative language for him given his stage presence. Keywords: contextual meaning, figurative language, song lyrics

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