FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE BRUNO MARS SONGS

ABSTRACT
Meivia Haniq R. 2022, “Figurative Language in the Bruno Mars’ Songs” Final
Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Art and Language
Education (FPBS) Universitas PGRI Semarang. The first advisor: Th. Cicik
Sophia Budiman, S.S., M.Pd. and the second advisor: RR. Festi Himatu Karima,
S.S.,M.Hum.
Keywords: Figurative Language, Bruno Mars’ songs
This research is about “figurative language in the Bruno Mars’ songs”.
The objectives of this research are: (1) to describe the type of Figurative Language
in the Bruno Mars’ songs. (2) to find out the dominant type of Figurative
Language used in analyzing Bruno Mars’ songs. The researcher used descriptive
qualitative. The goal of this research is to make it easier for students to understand
figurative language by employing familiar English songs. To gather data, the
researcher employed Bruno Mars' songs “Grenade”, “It Will Rain”, “Talking to
the Moon” and Count on Me, the researcher acts as an observer, data collector,
and data analyst. Observation, by gathering the lyrics of each song, library
research, listening to them on the internet, and then looking for figurative
language words in each lyric by looking at the song's background. Moreover
figurative language help students learn when they are learning English in a class
by using songs, because when students learn through songs it makes it easier to
understand English. Every song has a meaning and language whose purpose is to
beautify when conveying massages and is then expressed with figurative language
in the song. The second reason is to prevent listeners from interpreting the
message a songwriter is trying to get over in a song