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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The chapter discusses the research results and the discussion. It is divided into two sections. The first section discusses types of figurative language found in
The Script‟s album No Sound without Silence. The second section explains predominant types of figurative language
in The Script‟s album No Sound without Silence. Those two parts are linked to the theoretical descriptions that are
explained in Chapter II.
A. Types of Figurative Language in the Lyrics
This section is intended to answer the first research problem which is to find out the types of figurative language in t
he lyrics of The Script‟s album No Sound without Silence. As stated in Chapter II, the theories employed as the
framework for analyzing the data are Jay 2003, Lakoff and Johnson 2003, and Colston 2015. Based on the results of the analysis, there are ten types of
figurative language found in the lyrics, namely metaphor, simile, hyperbole, meiosis, idiomatic expressions, rhetorical questions, metonymy, irony, sarcasm,
and personification. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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1. Metaphor
Jay 2003, p. 315 mention s that “a metaphor makes an implicit
comparison between two concepts.” The concepts are typically ideas and objects
Lakoff Johnson, 2003, p. 14. There are six metaphorical expressions found in the album. The first
example is when love‟s a battle Army of Angels, line 1. It is a comparison
between love and a battle. People need to give their best efforts to win the love as it is to win the battle. The second example is
and life‟s a war Army of Angels, line 2. It compares life and a war. Life is a struggle as it is a war. People need to
fight for their lives in a war so that they will not die wastefully as it is in this life. They need to fight for their lives to survive. The third example is
this world‟s a warzone Army of Angels, line 7. World is represented by a warzone as the place
which all struggles and efforts are done. The fourth example is if hate is poison and love‟s the cure Army of Angels, line 15. There are two comparisons in one
line; first is between hate and poison and the other is between love and cure. For the first comparison, the songwriters want to say that hatred and poison are all
negative things that could hurt other people. Then, the other comparison means that love and cure are all positive things or even can eliminate negative things. In
short, the line means that the negative things can be beaten up by the positive things.
The next example is I‟ll tell you life‟s just a blink so don‟t think twice The
Energy Never Dies, line 6. The metaphor is a comparison between life and a blink. The songwriters want to tell that they both occur only for a while or not too
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