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Table 3.2 Cross Tabulation of the Data Analysis Result
Abbreviations: Me
: Metaphor IE
: Idiomatic Expressions Ir
: Irony Si
: Simile RQ
: Rhetorical Questions S
: Sarcasm H
: Hyperbole My
: Metonymy P
: Personification Mi
: Meiosis
F. Research Procedures
In this part, the researcher explained how this research was conducted. The steps were illustrated in the following figure.
Steps Activities
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Figure 3.1 The Research Procedures
Song Titles Me
Si H
Mi IE
RQ My
Ir S
P 1. No Good in Goodbye
2. Man on A Wire Total
Transcribing the lyrics of eleven songs in the album
Observing and recording the result of figurative expressions found
in each song
Cross tabulating of all figurative expressions found in the lyrics
Describing and explaining the figurative expressions found
in the lyrics
Reporting and presenting the result of data analysis
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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,
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