FIGURE OF SPEECH ANALYSIS OF THE THRILL OF IT ALL ALBUM BY SAM SMITH USING PERRINE’S THEORY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION OF TEACHING POETRY

Prasetyo, Triadi. 2021. FIGURE OF SPEECH ANALYSIS OF THE THRILL
OF IT ALL ALBUM BY SAM SMITH USING PERRINE’S THEORY AND
ITS CONTRIBUTION OF TEACHING POETRY. Final Project, English
Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of
PGRI Semarang, Advisor I: Indri Kustantinah, S.S., M.Pd., Advisor II: Fitri
Yulianti, S.Pd., M.Pd
Keywords: figure of speech, Perrine’s theory, song lyric
The aims of this research are to identify the types of Figure of Speechs in
Sam Smith’s songs’ lyric in album The Thrill of It All, to identify the Figure of
Speech most dominant in Sam Smith’s songs’ lyric in album The Thrill of It All,
and to find out the contributions of Sam Smith’s songs’ lyric in album The Thrill
of It All in teaching Poetry. This research is a qualitaive analysis research which
analyzes the Figure of Speech Analysis of The Thrill of It All Album by Sam Smith
using Perrine’s Theory and It’s Contribution of Teaching Poetry. Documentary
research is used to collected the data. Document analysis is not only collecting
and writes in quoting form but also find the result of the analysis of the
document.The data of the research are analysed by listening, reading, identifying,
classifying, calculating, and making a table of the data. The result indicated that
the writer found 8 kinds of Figure of Speech which are found in The Thrill of It
All song’s album by Sam Smith. The most dominant Figure of Speech which is
used in songs lyric is Symbol with percentage 50,4%. The contributions such as
this song lyric could be the media to enhance the knowledge of Poetry, this song
lyric could attract the student by reading the content of it so the students will not
be bored when studying, this song lyric can improve knowledge of the students of
Poetry, especially in introduction to Poetry, and this song lyric has some Figure of
Speech that can be an example in teaching introduction to Poetry. The writer
hopes for the next researchers, they should develop this study and find new topics
which the writer has not already observed