AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN DAN BYRD’S SONG LYRICS ENTITLED “BOULEVARD”
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https://doi.org/10.58487/akrabjuara.v6i3.1525Keywords:
Song Lyrics, Boulevard, Figurative LanguageAbstract
This purpose of this study is trying to analyze the figurative languages ??and its meaning which exist in the lyric of the song “Boulevard”. It is a descriptive qualitative research where data were taken from a songs lyrics website. Data used in this research was a song lyrics entitled "Boulevard". This song was very popular in the 80s era and sung by Dan Byrd which was released in 1984. The result of this study is indicated that: there are 12 data which contain figurative languages. They consist of 12 alliterations which 2 of them are also hyperboles and one of them is an idiom. The study shows that all of figurative languages in “Boulevard” song lyrics involves alliteration type
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Kennedy, X. J. 1979. Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Second Edition. Boston: Little Brown and Company
Kreidler, Charles W. 1998. Introduction English Linguistic. New York : Routledge.
Leech, Geoffrey. (1981). Semantics, The study of meaning. Second Edition. England: Penguin books Ltd
Morner, Katlhen & Ralph Rausch. 1991. NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms. USA: NIC Publishing Group
Reaske, Christopher Russel. 1966. How to Analyze Poetry. New York: Monarch Press.
Wales, K. (2014). A Dictionary of Stylistics. Third Edition. New York: Routledge
https://genius.com/Dan-byrd-boulevard-lyrics (accessed 2021 July 26)
“The sun is in someone's eyes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20sun%20is%20in%20someone%27s%20eyes. Accessed 29 Jul. 2021
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idioms (accessed 2021 July 30)
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Published
2021-08-05
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Bayu Adhi, S. (2021). AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN DAN BYRD’S SONG LYRICS ENTITLED “BOULEVARD”. Akrab Juara : Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial, 6(3), 57–63. https://doi.org/10.58487/akrabjuara.v6i3.1525
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