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Table 4.5. List of Metaphors in “Manhattan”
No. Metaphor in the lyrics
1. You can have Manhattan
Dictionary Meaning: [n] an island and Borough of New York City in New York Bay, between the Hudson River and the East River. It is the
business and cultural centre of New York City. When people say that they have visited New York, they often mean that they have been to
Manhattan. Metaphorical Meaning: good future
2.
I’ll gather up the avenues and leave them on your doorstep Dictionary Meaning: [n] used in the names of streets in a town or city
Metaphorical Meaning: chance
3. That holding us in place is simple
fear of what’s already change
Dictionary Meaning: [n] the feeling you get when you are afraid or worried that something bad is going to happen
Metaphorical Meaning: the bad past
4. When I was one half of two
Dictionary Meaning: [adj] one of two equal parts of something Metaphorical Meaning: alone
The following metaphor are classified into dead metaphor and live metaphor in order to narrow the scope of classification of the metaphor. According to Larson
Larson 1998: 249 , there are two types of metaphor, they are dead metaphor and
live metaphor. Classification of discussion and division of the type of lyrics as
follow:
1. Dead Metaphor
According to Larson, dead metaphor is a metaphor that is part of idiomatic construction of the lexicon of the language Larson 1998: 249. When people hear
about dead metaphor, they will surely understand about the meaning of the dead metaphor because it is commonly used in society. They will not think about every
word, but instead the whole idiomatic expression that the metaphor has. In a simple way, dead metaphor is an idiom of a word that a language has that the speakers
already know about the meaning. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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This study finds some dead metaphors in Sara Bareilles songs. The writer compares the literal meaning and the context in the lyrics. In the previous table, the
study is showing the comparison of literal meaning based on only one dictionary. In order to gather the meaning and compare the literal meaning and transferred
meaning, the writer uses several dictionary. The result is based on several English dictionaries. Here are the metaphor:
Table 4.6. Dead Metaphors in the 5 Chosen Sara Bareilles’s Songs
no Song Title
Dead Metaphor Meaning
1. Brave
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue
Not to speak Cambridge English Dictionary
Online
2. Brave
Bow down to the mighty
Respect the powerful one Cambridge English
Dictionary Online
3. Love Song
Hello to high and dry
Difficult situation which a person enable to do
anything about. Collins Cobuild Dictionary of
Idioms To be stranded; to be left
out of things Dictionary of idioms and their
origins
4. Gravity
I stand so tall
to act in a proud and confident way
Cambridge Dictionary Online
5. Gravity
I live on my knees
Cannot move on Urban Dictionary
