A Description of Figurative Speech in Idina Menzel Selected Song

Abstract

This paper is entitled “Description of Figurative Speech in Idina Menzel Selected Song”. This paper aims to find the types of figurative speech contained in Idina Menzel's selected songs in her album named Idina, and find the dominant figurative speech used in the songs. The research method that the author used is the descriptive method or qualitative research using the theory of Gorys Keraf (2007). From this research, the authors found four types of figurative speech used in five selected songs by Idina Menzel with two types of figurative speech dominating. The four kinds of figurative are hyperbole, simile, repetition, and personification. And the dominant type of figurative speech used is Hyperbole and Simile.