FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AT SONG LYRICS OF BILLIE EILISH “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?” ALBUM

ABSTRACT: The objectives of this research were to identify the types of figurative language used in the songlyrics of Billie Eilish‟s Album and to found out the dominant types of figurative language in those songs. Thetheory of figurative language by Perrine (1977) is used in this thesis. There were five songs of Billie Eilishchosen to be the source of data, namely; You Should See Me in a Crown, Wish You Were Gay, When theParty’s Over, Xanny, and I Love You. To collect the data, the lyrics were written down while listening to thesong frequently and searched on the website Genius.com. This research used qualitative research. The method isused in this research was document or content analysis. The data analysis the data by using the theory byCreswell (2014) was conducted by data preparation, data reading, data coding, data classification, and datacalculating. In this research, the researchers used the data triangulation as a technique of checking the validationof the data. The result showed that the total of analysis was 25 data of figurative languages in the song lyrics ofBillie Eilish. There were 3 data of simile, 1 data of synecdoche, 5 data of metonymy, 6 data of symbol, 1 data ofparadox, 7 data of hyperbole, and 2 data of irony. The most dominant types of figurative language in song lyricsof Billie Eilish was hyperbole which represents (28%) of whole data, followed by simile (12%), synecdoche(4%), metonymy (20%), symbol (24%), paradox (4%), and irony (8%). It could be indicated that the dominanttype of figurative language in the songs is hyperbole. In essence, the songs were about the composer‟simagination and personal experiences in relationships and friendships.

KEYWORDS: Semantics, Figurative Language, Song, Lyric