| dc.description.abstract | In a song, the language which is also often used is figurative language. The
meaning of words in it uses non-literal meaning to make the song more interesting
and imaginative. The non-literal meaning can be seen in the lyric of a song, in fact,
in the westerns music too. The purpose of this study is to identify the kinds of
figurative meaning used in John Mayer’s selected songs and analyze the literal
meaning of those figurative forms. The theory applied to support this study
proposed by Abrams. This paper used library research which the data collected
from the song lyrics of Continuum Album by John Mayer. As a result of the
analysis shown that there are four types of figurative meanings found in five
songs from “Continuum” album. The figurative meanings found that are
Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole and Apostrophe. And the meanings
represented by the used of each those types. In conclusion, types of metaphor and
personification dominate used for the song lyric | en_US |
