FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS IN DEVIL MAY CRY V ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

This study aims to find figurative language items from 12 types of figurative
language base from Arvius (2003), Barnet, Burto, & Cain (2008), and Dasylva &
Jegede (2013) in 4 different character theme songs. This study uses a qualitative
research methods, data collection techniques through triangulation, and inductive
data analysis which is base from Prof. Dr. Sugiyono (2015) qualitative research
results emphasize importance rather than generalization. The difficulties in sorting
all the lyrics using this data collecting method by separating from which is this and
that already a complicated task due to how similar some of the items that represent
the types of figurative. some researchers do not numeric the result or do further
analysis of every line in a song or poetry due to lacking evidence that the lines in
the song and part of the figurative language itself not everyone uses the same
founding method to sort them. There were only 11 figurative languages found
which are simile, personification, metonymy, apostrophe, hyperbole, synecdoche,
irony, oxymoron, antithesis, alliteration, and paradox. The most used is Hyperbole
with 26 used while the fewer is similes with 1 used. However, there is one figurative
language that is not included which is a metaphor. Different methodologies in
lexical cohesion materials or different subjects and using this study only as a
reference.
Keywords: Figurative Language, Song, Character