Abstract
The aims of this research is to know the types of metaphors found in Bring Me The Horizon’s “Amo” album selected song’s lyrics and what is the intended meaning of the song’s lyrics. There are two research questions. They are: 1) what types of metaphors are found in Bring Me the Horizon’s selected song lyrics? 2) What is the intended meaning of the song’s lyrics? The reason behind this research was conduct is to get more knowledge about figurative language especially metaphor and how it works in the literary world. This research uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the lyrics. The result of this research shows six types of metaphors by Newmark. Those are dead, cliché, stock, recent, original metaphor and simile. Two out of their three songs of Bring Me the Horizon, that is Medicine and In the Dark use dead metaphor and simile the most. It is then concluded that the intended meanings of their three songs is to tell other people who ever felt belittled, have social issues or being looked down to keep going and not affected by those hurtful words. In other words, Bring Me the Horizon uses the function of figurative language especially metaphor to express their message and applied them into their works. Keywords: Metaphor, meaning
Highlights
Figurative language is a figure of speech as a way of saying something other than their literal meaning of the words
Figurative language is used in any form of literary works, such as poem, novels, and songs
The author explains about the kinds of metaphors and which part of the song lyrics categorized as metaphors, while this study focuses on the intended meaning of the song lyrics
Summary
Figurative language is a figure of speech as a way of saying something other than their literal meaning of the words. Waluyo (1987: 83) stated that in expressing something in unusual way, authors like to use figurative language. Waluyo (1987: 83) stated that in expressing something in unusual way, authors like to use figurative language. It is deviates from the conventional work order and meaning to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or comparison. When a writer uses literal language, it is used to stating the facts or what the intended meaning is It is different when they use figurative language. They want to engage their audience to provoke them by thinking more creatively and something more beyond the world. Authors of literary works tend to use these figurative language those are; simile, personification, symbol and metaphors. From those example metaphors appears as one of figurative languages that
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