AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES USED IN SELENA

GOMEZ’ SONGS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO ENGLISH TEACHING

AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

A THESIS

Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for SarjanaPendidikan(S.Pd) Degree in English Education Programn of Teaching

Training and Education University of Mataram

By :

Tsuroyallaela Janawati

E1D114102

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM

LANGUAGE AND ART DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM

2018

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CANDIDATE’S DECLARATIONS

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I hereby clarify that this thesis entitled “An Analysis of Figurative Languages

used in Selena Gomez’ Songs and Its Constribution to English Teaching At

Senior High School”, is submitted as a partial fulfillment of requirements for the

degree of the bachelor of education and it is the result of my own work. This

thesis has never been submitted for higher degree either to any university or

institution.

Mataram, November 2018

Writer,

Tsuroyallaela Janawati

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank to the God of Allah SWT who has given

us a long life and great health so that I’m able to finish this thesis in time.

Secondly, may Sholawat and Salam to our marvellous prophet Muhammad SAW

who has brought us from the darkness to the lightness.

The writer would like to express her gratitude to her both advisors Dr. H.

Nuriadi, S.S., M. Hum. And and Muh. Isnaeni, S.S., M.A who has given me a

very sincere guidances, encouragement, and many kind of great inspirations. In

this beautiful opportunity, the writer also would like to send her gratitudes and

thankfullness to :

1. Dr. H. Wildan, M.Pd., the Dean of Faculty of Teacher Training and

Education, University of Mataram

2. Dra. Siti Rohana Hariana Intiana, M.Pd., the Head of Language and Art

Department of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of

Mataram.

3. Dr. Muhammad Amin, S.Pd. M. Tesol., the Head of English Department

of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Mataram.

4. All the lecturers of English Department of Faculty of Teacher Training

and Education, University of Mataram.

5. My great beloved family (Mamak, Bapak, Kak Nunung, Asyraf) who

always sincerely give me support, pray, and love to me.

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6. And all the members of Xantikkuh’s Dormitory (Ndangso, Siskahay, Uli

Syakiba, Mihi, and Widikri) who always sincerely support and share their

loves to me during the thesis being done.

7. My beloved roomates who always support and love me (Lina, Harmi, Eyi,

Ica, Mincut, Wulan, Fadila, Yuni).

MOTTO

-TREAT PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS BECAUSE BEHIND EVERY FACE IS A

STORY THAT COULD USE A LITTLE MORE LOVE –

Cheryl Richardson

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DEDICATION

This thesis is dedicated to :

The greatest and the strongest fighters I have ever known, Mamak and

Bapak, the cutest, sweetest, my squishi Asyraf and my beloved sister and

brother, Kak Nuruddhuha Janawati and Kak Angga Santa Hoki and for all

my family I can’t mentioned here.

The crazy people in the world “ LG Generation”.

The most creepiest, craziest friends ever, Xantikkuh’s Dormitory

members.

The brutal besties Kiki, Weni, Tante Sus, Yuni.

And for those who always send their love to me, I Love You all.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE.......................................................................................................................i

APPROVAL............................................................................................................ii

RATIFICATION....................................................................................................iii

CANDIDATE’S DECLARATIONS......................................................................iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.....................................................................................v

TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................ix

ABSTRACT...........................................................................................................xii

CHAPTER I.............................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................1

1.1 Background of The Study...............................................................................1

1. 2 Research Questions.......................................................................................4

1. 3 Objectives of Study.......................................................................................5

1.4 Significance of the Study...............................................................................5

1.5 Scope of The Study.......................................................................................6

1.6 Definition of Key Terms................................................................................6

CHAPTER II............................................................................................................9

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...............................................................9

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2.1 Previous Related Studies................................................................................9

2.2 The Nature of Literature...............................................................................10

2.3 Definition of Figurative Language...............................................................12

2.4 The Functions of Figurative Language........................................................14

2.5 Types of Figurative Language......................................................................15

2.6 Lyrics............................................................................................................18

2.7 Song..............................................................................................................19

2.8 Theoretical Approach...................................................................................20

2.8.1 Formalism..............................................................................................20

2.8.2 Second Language Acquisition...............................................................23

CHAPTER III........................................................................................................24

RESEARCH METHOD.........................................................................................24

3.1 Research Design...........................................................................................24

3.2 Source of The Data.......................................................................................24

3.3 Method of Collecting Data...........................................................................25

3.4 Method of Data Analysis..............................................................................25

CHAPTER IV........................................................................................................28

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION...........................................................................28

4.1 Findings........................................................................................................28

Using song as medium to teach can control timing easily..............................32

4.2 Discussion....................................................................................................32

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4.2.1 Types of Figurative Language in Seven Songs of Selena Gomez............32

4.2.1.2 Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Wolves...........................32

4.2.1.2 Figurative Language in The Song entitled The Heart Wants What It

Wants..............................................................................................................34

4.2.1.3 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Love Will Remember.......36

4.2.1.4 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Stars Dance.....................37

4.2.1.5 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Kill Em With Kindness....38

4.2.1.6 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Back To You....................39

4.2.1.7 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Who Says.........................41

4.2.2 Meanings of Figurative Language in Seven Songs of Selena Gomez.....42

4.2.2.1 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Wolves.42

4.2.1.2 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled The Heart

Wants What It Wants......................................................................................43

4.2.2.3 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Love Will

Remember.......................................................................................................46

4.2.2.5 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Kill

Them With Kindness.......................................................................................48

4.2.2.6 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Back To

You..................................................................................................................49

4.2.2.7 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Who Says

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4.2.3 Contribution of the Study to English Teaching.........................................51

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CHAPTER V..........................................................................................................54

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS................................................................54

5.1 Conclusion....................................................................................................54

5.2 Suggestions...................................................................................................55

REFERENCES.......................................................................................................56

APPENDICES.......................................................................................................60

An Analysis of Figurative Languages Used in Selena Gomez’s Songs and ItsContribution to English Teaching At Senior Highschool

By

Tsuroyallaela JanawatiE1D114102

ABSTRACT

This thesis entitled “An Analysis of Figurative Languages Used in SelenaGomez’ Songs and Its Constribution to English Teaching at Senior High School”.The figurative languages found in Selena Gomez’ Songs are analysed into threeaspects that are the types, meanings, and the contstributions toward Englishteaching. The writer uses the Formalism theory and SLA as the theoriticalapproach to analyze the figurative languages and the contributions of seven songsof Selena Gomez. In this study, the writer applied qualitative method. The writerfocuses on four types of figurative languages analysis, those are hyperbole,metaphor, simile, and personification. The data of study acquired from sevensongs of Selena Gomez . Those songs are from five albums ,”impreska,“vol.31.2018”, “for you, 2014”, “ revival, 2015”, “stars, 2013”, “soundstrack“13 reasons why”. After analyzing the data of this study, the writer found twentyfour (24) expressions from four types of figurative languages. Twelve arehyperbole, six metaphor, three simile, and three personification. Hyperbolicexpression is the most figurative language used in seven songs of Selena Gomez.In addition this study gives contributions toward English teaching. The data foundthat this study gives contributions to English teaching.

Key words : Figurative Languages, Selena Gomez, Song Lyric, Analysis.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of The Study

When we are talking about literature or literary works, people in general

will assume that literary works deal with something that is truly beautiful and

imaginative. Moreover, people in general thought that literary work is only about

something which cannot be seen as a “concrete” work. Despite from all ideas

about literature of general people, literature is actually a work which combines all

life experiences. Started from histories, love lifes, economics, politics, education,

humanism, wars, even death, etc. In order to share each of experience of life,

literature plays a best role to cover all of those thing to presents a great work into

a novel, poems, lyric, etc.

Some of the types of literary works which people mostly know are novel,

poetry, drama, prose, lyric, and song. Those works of literature are depicted as

beautiful and imaginative works if there are figures of speech within them. This is

tools to beautify a literary work called “figurative language”.

Figurative languages help people who deal with literary works such as a

writer, a composer, or an actor to convey their thoughts, ideas, and even

experiences in a beautiful way wheterit is conveyed indirecty or directly. As an

example, composer who creates a beautiful song used to use words that cover a

true meaning which is different from people in common. Song lyrics which

consist of figurative language will be more valueable, artistic, and beutiful. Thus,

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a songwriter has capability to choose certain words to present their worksto

listeners or viewers.

Everysongwriter has different way to convey, to express and describe his

or her song lyrics. Commonly, a songwriter conveys and express their ideas using

figurative languages. Without words or sentences that involved figurative

language a song lyrics will be less valuable and less atractive tolisteners or

viewers. There are several types of figurative language started from simile,

personification, hyperbole, methaphor, synecdoche, and so on. Each typeof

figurative languages has its own function.When we learn figurative language, it

means that we are trying to find a real meaning behind the word, phrase, or

sentence. Thus, sometimes to analyze figurative languages or even understand

each sentence in song lyrics is something difficult to do. Simply, literature is the

sense of verbal and written words that comes from the fact, truth, feeling, and etc.

Nuriadi (2016:162) states that “ figurative language are the language or

expressions used verbally in order to describe or figure out one intention, idea, or

message of one speaker”. Abrams (1971) defines figurative language as the

standard significance or sequence of words, in order to achieve special meaning of

effect. It can be understood that a figurative language is an expression in order to

achive special meaning or effect that describe one intention or ideas or message.

Reaske (1966: 33) defines figurative language as a language which

employs various figure of speech. It generally departs the language employed in

the traditional, literal ways of describing persons or objects. It is can be said that

figurative language is a medium to faded a word behind its literal meaning.

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The use of figurative language in the song lyrics can influence the listeners

or viewers through the figure of speech within the song lyrics. We can understand

the message implied in lyrics easily but sometimes we find it difficult. Murphy

(1996:6) states that songs can be enormously valuable for developing certain

capacities, but they can be more valuable if the singer or listeners exploit them

creatively to bridge the gap between the pleasurable experience of singing or

listening and the communicative use of language.

Figurative language is sometimes difficult to interpret for general listeners,

especially Indonesian listeners,because they have different capability to interpret

the figurative language which is included in those songs. Since English become a

world’s tool communication Indonesian learners’ realize how important English

language is. Whereas, English as foreign language (FL) in Indonesia, sometimes

to learn foreign language is more complicated than second language. Learning

English can be stressful if a learner does not find an enjoyable way to acquire

English. Therefore, a lot of enjoyable way to learn English appeared along with

the English as the international language. One of enjoyable way to learn English is

listening to music. Music covers skills in English such as speaking, listening. The

fact that music is one of the best way to learn English, the writer interested in

doing study of the constribution of figurative language toward English teaching.

The writer know that lyrics in western musics not only use denotative

meaning to express message from singer but also connotative meaning. Many

kinds of literatures give us so much information in which they use non literal

meaning of words. For example, some lyric in the songs uses figurative language

to make it more interesting and fancy.

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One of themost influential songwriter and singer is Selena Gomez. Selena

creates a bunch of song which is telling the listeners or viewers about women,

love, friendship, spirit, or even broken heart feeling. Selena covers almost all of

her song with figurative language. Selena Gomez has over 125 million followers

on the Instagram. She is a singer who always write a song using figurative

language in her lyrics. Every song has a beautiful message and meaning. There are

a lot of messages and values which they can gather from her song.

Thus, the writer is interested in conducting study in this matter because

Selena Gomez is one of the most favorite singer all over the world who made

great songs. Hence, the listeners really love her songs, because she is a humble

singer. Refering to the explanation above, the writer is interested in analyzing the

figurative languages used in seven songs of Selena Gomez. They are,Wolves

(2018)(impreska, vo.31.2018), The Heart Wants what it Wants (2014) (for

you.2014), Kill Them with Kindness (2016)(revival.2015), Love Will Remember

(2013 )(stars.2013 ), Stars Dance, Back To You (2017)(soundtrack”13 reasons

why) and Who Says.

1. 2 Research Questions

Related to the background of the study, the study would like to answer the

following questions :

1. What types of figurative languages are used in Selena Gomez’ songs ?

2. What are the meanings of figurative languages used in Selena Gomez’

songs?

3. What are the constribution of figurative languages in song lyric toward

English teaching ?

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1. 3 Objectives of Study

Related to the background of the study, the writer has objective of study.

The objectives of the research are :

1. To identify the types of figurative languages used in Selena Gomez’ songs.

2. To explain the meaning of figurative language used in Selena Gomez’

songs.

3. To describe the constribution of figurative languages in song lyric toward

English teaching.

1.4 Significance of the Study

There are two significanes of the study. Those are theoritical and practical

ones.

1. Theoreticalsignificance

This study is expected to enrich the study of English language especially

in figurative language as a reference for further research in the use of

figurative language in song.

2. Practical significance

a. This study will be beneficial for those who are interested in the analysis

of figurative language and those who are interested in the songs of singer

mention above.

b. This study is expected to give contribution in English teaching in

which the teacher can use figurative languages as the materials to conduct

their teaching.

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1.5 Scope of The Study

The study focuses on analyzing the use of figurative language (hyperbole,

personification, simile, metaphor) in lyrics of each song by using formalism

theory a the theoritical approach. The object of the study areseven songs are taken

from five albums. Those are, Wolves (2018)(impreska, vo.31.2018), The Heart

Wants what it Wants (2014) (for you.2014), Kill Them with Kindness (2016)

(revival.2015), Love Will Remember (2013 )(stars dance.2013 ), Stars dance

(2011)(when the sun goes down), Back To You (2017)(soundtrack”13 reasons

why).Who Says(2012).

1.6 Definition of Key Terms

In supporting the data of analysis, the writer gets several books that containing

some information related to the subject. Some of them can be mentioned as

follows :

1. Language is considered to be a system of communication in speech and

writing that is used by people of a particular country or area. (Hornby,

2010: 834)

2. Lazar (2003: 1), declared that figurative language provides useful

springboard for integrated skills work and to stimulate reading, speaking,

and writting skills.

3. They are a set of words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses

and choruses. Lyric is communicating a person’s individual sentiments

and thoughts, connected with composed for singing (Hornby, 2000:802)

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4. A song is may be concluded as the main factor in producing an

entertaining music. Song serves million aspect of life which has been

recorded into it. As Horrison defines a song “ the song may be used

culturally to tell story and to point out aspects of the target culture.” Not so

much different from Salcedo (2002:6) states that song mirror normal daily

activities of the society that it helps, when music is a strong part of one’s

own culture. Song lyrics combines melody and vocals, although some

composers have written instrumental pieces, or musical works without

words, that mimic the quality of a singing voice.The words of a song are

called lyrics. Lyrics can include a series of verses, the longer sections of

the song that tell the story, and a refrain, a short phrase repeated at the end

of every verse. Songs can have a simple structure of one or two verses, or

a more complex one with multiple verses and refrain.

5. English teaching is one of the most needed thing in human kind today.

English is still considered one of the most important school subjects and

therefore beginning teachers can find the responsibility of teaching it both

exciting and challenging. The number of this language users rise (Godwyn

:2009 ). The important of English come along with globalization needs,

similarly to Krahnke, he stated that English curriculum not only has it role

for preparing students for future, but to see currilum, and the people who

experience it, as making and shaping that future through the competent

and comfident action (1985: 3). As in Indonesia,the goverment has made

rules with united efforts to improve Indonesian learners’ English through

the English language teaching since Indonesian learners’ attend pre schooll

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till senior highschool, in order to enabling them to obtain job opportunities

whether in national scale or international scale.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Previous Related Studies

The first research related to this study is “ An Analysis of Figurative

Language Used in Eminem Songs “ which has been researched by Ismi Syaepul

Buhori(2014), the student of University of Mataram. Ismi used descriptive

analytic method in her research. In her thesis, Ismi analyzed figurative language

focused on methaphor, menonymy, simile, and hyperbole.

The second related study is thesis by Firman Koma Febdilan (2012). He

conducted a research entitled “ An Analysis of Figurative Language Used in

Lyrics of Selected Dewa 19 Songs “. the writer attempted to describe the types

and meaning of the figurative language that is focused on methaphor, hyperbole,

and personification by firstly analyzing the general meaning and theme of the

songs. The writer found methapor is dominant used in all songs.

The third related study is “ The Analysis of Figurative Language Used in

Some of One Direction’s Songs’ Lyrics” which has been researched by Mila

Khairunnisa (2016) the student of University of Mataram. The writer applied

qualitative method. The writer found twenty expressions from four types of

figurative languages. Three of them are similes, four methaphors, three

personifications and ten hyperbolic expressions. The writer explained the meaning

conveyed in the figurative language used in the songs’ lyrics of One Direction.

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The forth related study is “ An Analysis of Figurative Language Used in

Some Coldplays’s Song Lyric” which has been conducted by Syamsi Azwardi

(2014) the student of University of Mataram. The aims of this research is to find

out types of figurative language and their meaning in four selected songs lyrics of

Coldplay. This research used descriptive qualitative method. At the end of the

research, the writer found that the meaning of song lyrics of Coldplay mostly

contained of social.

From those studies, the writer will presents an analysis of figurative

language used in sevensongs of Selena Gomez. This research has similarity with

those five studies above. All of them studied about figurative language in song

lyrics. However, this research also has differences from those related previous

studies, that are on the object, data, variable, method. If the related study

analyzed about Dewa’s song, Eminem’s song, One Direction’s song, and

Coldplay’s song, though the writer will analyze about the types of figurative

language, the meaning that conveyed in Selena’s song and last is the contribution

of figurative study toward English teaching.

2.2 The Nature of Literature

Literature reflects various aspect of life. Literature can be said a gifted for

human as a tool to express their imagination, ideas, thoughts, feeling, or even

grieving through a language a medium to convey. Literature represents human’s

expression of life. Literature offers the devotees either imaginative stories or any

factual information. Thus, literature devided into two; imaginative and

informative literature. Wellek and Warren (1949) states that one way to define

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‘literature’ is everything in print. Beside that, (Barnet et.al.1963) says the

literature is a “performance in word”.

Literature classiffied into three general genres; poetry, drama, and prose.

According to Nuriadi (2016:112) states that “the term “poetry” refers to

knowledge, quality, and feature showed by a poem as a work of art ”. Differs from

Poetry, a drama usually plays by a people (players) which has their own dialog.

Drama may be served if the dialog has the sense of diologic. Contrary with Prose,

one of the literary work Prose. In Nuriadi (2016:33) it is stated that ‘prose’ is a

form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of

speech rather than a rhythmic structure as it is commonly found convensional

writings of poetry.”

Jones (1986 : 1) states that literature, in its broaden sense includes all

written materials. He also defided literature into two main group. The first one is

‘informative literature’ and the second one is ‘imaginative literature’.

Informative literature aims to informs the reader what is happening in the

world. It tells the readers about technologies, cultures, histories, development of

every nation all over world which can the readers find in several written

informative works such as, history book, bibliography, magazineand so on.

informative literature deals with facts, history, explanations, and ‘people’s life’

(Jones, 1968:2).

Contrary to informative literature, imaginative literature aims to appear

thought and feelings (Jones: 1968: 2). When someone read a poem, singing a

song, watching a drama, or reading anovel, he/she will not always think whether

they nor educative and informative. As long as he/she enjoys the poem, song,

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drama, or novel it will not important anymore if they are real or not. Since the

only himself/herself who can feel the beauty and the message of this imaginative

literature.

Grant (1998:1) defines literature in different way. He said that literature in

the word originaly mean all written language. Formally, literature is defined,

according to one dictionary, as writing in which expression and form, in

connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or

essensial features, as poetry, romance, history, biography, essay etc. Not all good

books are literature, but all literature is good, interesting,significant, and well

written.

Literature is a world where people can save their expressions, feeling,

ideas, thought and locked by a literary work which results a precious thing.

Literature also has the value of entertainment. It serves various media to entertain

lovers to get their satisfication. Thus media are forms into poetry, novel, drama,

song, and etc. One of the most enjoyable medium of literature is song. Song is like

a magic that can hypnotize us; therefore, when they hear the songs they could be

brought into the songs. For example, when they are listening to a song, they can

feel the story of lyrics and the melody which play our emotion and feeling even

our soul feel the message behind the lyrics.

2.3 Definition of Figurative Language

In this point, the writer goes through with the underlying theories to

support the subject of this research used for data analysis. The writer has done

some literature review in many sources such as books, journals, and internet

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websites. This chapter joins some definitions, descripstions, and elaborations as

foundation of the study.

Risdianto (2011: 33) states that figurative language is wording that makes

express comparisons between not at all like things utilizing figures of speech such

as representation(methapors) and similes. Figurative language is language that

consists figures of speech. Kennedy (1979:187) says that figure of speech maybe

said to occur whenever a speaker or writer for the sake for freshness or emphasis,

departs from the usual denotation of words. So, figure of speech is a way of

saying something using non literal meaning of the word in order to cover the true

meaning.

Reaske (1966:33) said that figurative language is a language which

employs various figures of speech. The use of figurative language in a language is

as medium to make more beautiful. On the other hand, Keraf (1985:113) stated

that figurative expression is the way of expressing mind through language

characteristically which shows the writer’s (language user) spirit and personality.

According to Croft (2000: 31), figurative language is a symbolic or

methaphorical and does not mean to be taken literary. People tend to use

figurative language in order to avoid the true meaning to be said directly. Has

similary with Poter (1967: 56-57) says that “figures of speech convey shades of

meaning that can not be expressed exactly any other way, they convey a great deal

in a shorter time than would otherwise be possible, and they are immediate

because they embody the meaning in imagery instead of expressing it abstractly.

McAcrthur (1992) grouped figures of speech into four, they are :

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a. Phonological figures which include alliteration, assonance and

anomatopoeia.

b. Orthographic features; they are visual forms created for effects.

c. Syntactic figures; they may bring the non-standard into standard language.

d. Lexical figures; they extend the conventional so as to surprise or entertain.

In fact that some linguists have different classifications and definitions of

figure of speech, the principle and concept are almost the same. Perrine (1982)

said that figure of speech as medium of saying one thing and meaning another.

Perrine argued that figures of speech should not be taken literally only and that

they serve function of giving extended meanings to words, phrases, or sentences

from their literal expressions.

Cited from Encyclopedia Americana (1995: 197), “figure of speech serves

a variety of purposes; they are used to clarify meaning or word, to provide vivid

example, to emphasize, to stimulate association and emotions, to give, to

inanimate objects, to amuse or to ornament, they have an essential aesthetic

purpose , widening and deepening the range of perceptionb response to the world

of objects and ideas”.

2.4 The Functions of Figurative Language

Figurative language is literary devices which emphasize the connotative

meaning than denotative. Figurative language is a language which employs

various figure of speech. It is concluded that figurative language used to use word

or expression with different meaning than literal interpretation.

There are several functions of using figurative language in literay work.

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Firstly , the author tend to use figurative language because they can say

what theywant to say more vividly that they can not say it directly. So that they

can wrapped the literal meaning using figure of speech. Figures of speech offers

several ways of adding extra dimention of language.

Secondly, figurative language provides ways of changing the ordinary form of

expression or the ordinary course of ideas to produce a greater effect. Moreover,

figurative language creates a literary work more beautiful, as we can find in

literary writing such as poetry.

Third, the writing of literature departs from ordinary ideas of saying

something but by using figurative language this ordinary sentences constructed

aestheticaly. So that the writing of literature offers readers the aethetic one.

Therefore, figurative language affords imaginative pleasure.Figures of speech is a

way of adding emotional intensity and conveying attitudes along with the

information told.

2.5 Types of Figurative Language

There are types of figurative language expression such as methaphor,

personification,simile, hyperbole, and ect. Each expert has their own definitions in

each type of figurative expressions.

a. Simile

A simile is a direct comparison between things which are not

particularly similar in their essence (Reaske, 1966:42). Simile is

figurative language that used to explain the resemblance of two things,

like their shape, character and colour.

For example :

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He is like a fish out of the water

Her skin is as white as snow

Her blood spread out like wildfire

She is as in field a silken tent

As we can see, in second sentences presenting s simile which

directs the reader to a comparison between skin and snow through

the colour. The sign of simile is the word “ as”.

b. Metaphor

The second types of figurative language is metaphor. It like simile that

is to comparison but in methaphor does not use “as” or “like” to create

the comparison. According to Kennedy (1979:490) affirms that

metaphor is a statement that one thing is something else, which in a

literal sense, it is not. It doesn’t use connective words such as like or

as. Metaphor only makes sense when the similarities between the two

things become apparent or someone understands the connection.

Lakoff (1987: 388) states that a metaphor is the understanding itself

of one concept in terms of another. Metaphor are sometimes

constructed through our common language.

For example :

Life is a journey

My lover is a treasure

She has a heart of stone

She is a night owl

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The expression life is a journey is the resemblance of two

things that actualy different. From this sentence a life

resemblaced to a journey shows that two things could have a

meaning when they put into a literary work.

c. Hyperbole

Nuriadi (2016: 164) affirms hyperbole is a literary device where

the author or the writer uses some words or phrases to result the

exaggerating and overstating effect in order to produce its

noticeable effect of work. Hyperboles can be added to fiction to

add color and depth to a character.

For example :

His scream cuts my ear

When she was in New York, she spent a ton of money

Rani’s voice damage the silent.

In this context, the sense of exagerration that is the man’s scream could breaks the

ear of the man who can heard the man’s scream. In this sense, the exagerration

and the imposibilities offers the readers.

d. Personification

It is a figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term

(truth or nature) is made human (Kennedy, 1979:495). Personification

gives human characteristics to inanimate objects,animals, or ideas.

This can really affects the way the reader imagines things.

For example :

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Two sunflowers move into the yellow room

The fire swallowed the entire forest

The wind touched my skin

The sun smiles at us

The sun smiles at us, the expression of this sentences tells us of how a

sun (thing) can act like human being (living thing ) in this context the sun has

given the ability to smile. In fact that, the sun would not smiles at us like human

being does.

2.6 Lyrics

Lyric is a set of words that make up a song. A song usually consisting of

verses and chourus. Literary, the word ‘lyric’ comes from the Greek word, lyrics,

has its meaning “singing to the lyre”. Lyric is a written words that someone

produce which is combines with some imagination, ideas, and feeling with it.

When a lyric combine with music instrument and vocal styles it would be a

beautiful and wonderful song and pleasing to hear.

Hornby (2000:802), stated that the lyrics is expressing a person’s personal

feeling and thoughts, connected with singing and written for a lyric poem is the

words of a song. In addition, Little (1970:174) said that lyric is part of song and

music written in stanza form, which has various emotion described by particular

diction as the way to convey writer intentions. Usually lyrics contain social,

politic, economic, love, which deliver a messeges through explicit or implied

methapor or sybolism.

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2.7 Song

The song is a tone or sound art composition in sequence, combination and

temporal relitionship (usually joined by a musical instrument) to produce a

musical composition having unity and containing rhythm. Lyric in a songitself has

it own characteristics of poetic, rhyming nature, although they may be religious

verses or free prose. Etimologicaly, the word ‘song’ has the same root as the verb

‘to sing’ and it is defined that which is sung.

According to Hornby (2000:1281) the form of song is a short piece of

music. A song is a piece of music for accompanied without or by voice or voices

or,”the act or art of singing, ”but the term is generally not used for large vocal

forms including opera and oratorio.

Every nation has their own song that represent their cultural characteristic of

the nation. The song may be made according to the independence day, woman’s

day, nation day, etc. Similarly to Horrison(1997) states that the song may be used

culturally to tell a story and to point out aspects of the target culture. Colloquially,

a song mirrors the normal daily activities of the society that it helps, when music

is a strong part of one’s own culture Salcedo (2002:6).

In music styles that are predominatly vocal based, such as popular music, a

composition without vocals may be called a song. However, song can be sung

solo, duet, trio or group.

Songs can be classified into several types of genres depending on the

current of the genre. There are several genre in song started from, religion,

motivation, romance, love, death, etc. A popular song can become a pop song or

music. Pop song or pop music may be considered a more commercially popular

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genre of popular music as a whole. Songs, in popular music have more simpler

structures than art songs.Song including with many elements including lyric.

Lyric is one of the literature work.

There is a common sense why song included as literature. According to

Craig Morgan (2017) he stated that both music and the words in fact is a poem.

Referring from this statement it can be said that lyric in song is the art of pure

language which draws a literature work. In song itself, sonic aspectsuch as

syllable sounds, rhyme, rhythm, assonance, dissonance, are meant to

“accompany” the content, to set the mood, to refer to and elicit a sensory

experience related to the emotions and images of the poem. They also refer back

to the long history of language, echoing sounds and rhythms of the past, placing

the poem in history, linking it to a timeless tradition. Thus, song is the real fixed

work of lyrics which has mixed with those elements( Craig , 2017).

Actually song can be said a poetry. These two literature works almost have no

differences. Poetry has it verse, and also song. Song serves figure of speech and

poetry too. In other words, song lyrics are poetry that sung.

2.8 Theoretical Approach

2.8.1 Formalism

Etymologically formalism derived from the word forma (latin), which

means form. In literature, formalism is the theory which used to analyze literary

works includes pronunciation techniques –including rhythm, rhyme, aquistic /

sound, alliteration,asonansi,figure of speech, etc. (Nuriadi, 2016). This theory

freed from external elements such as history, biography, contextculture etc.

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Formalism is literature mode of critism, born in Russia intwentieth century by

initiative of a pioneer Victor Sklovskij.

Russian formalism appeared as a reaction of literature criticism applied at

that moment which emphasize and corcerned only the content and social

characteristics of a literary work. Formalism is one of the sect of modern literature

theory. The literature’s experts and linguists gathered into two group named, The

Moscow Linguistics Circle (1915) whose member are linguists are most, and The

Opojaz Group (1916) whose member are literature’s experts. Formalism is a

reaction against a positivistic literary approach which is an approach based on the

philosophy of positivism. This approach assumes that all knowledge must be

based from facts that can be observed. Science which is not based on the

description, according to the ideology, are rejected because it is regarded as empty

speculation. Positivist thought has influence strong on thinking in general

especially the literary experts. The formalists reject the theory that literary text

depicted individual or community image. According to them, literary texts are

facts the material that is built upon the words. On the other hand the formalists

using two concepts. These concepts named "Defamiliarization" and "de-

automatization". Defamiliarizing ‘defamiliarization’ is process of ‘estrangement’

could faster an awareness of how techniques could crystallize or frame a text and

would allow the critical eye to meander into new streams of thought. The process

of how the devotee of literary work understanding and interpreting the meaning

behind, by the formalist called ‘de-automatization’.

(http://DavidHoffman.blogs.bcu.ac.uk/virtualtheorist/formalism/.)

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Formalism is also known as the ‘New Criticism’. This critical approach

examines a literary text or art work through its aesthetic composition such as

form, language, technique and style. Formalists believe that the art-object can be

isolated from social, cultural and historical influences and examined as an

autonomous whole. Proponents of formal analysis believe that universal

statements or laws about the work under observation can be measured through an

analysis of its internal structures and language. A formalist approach will evoke

technical vocabulary to examine a piece of work. The form, tone, language,

characterization, figures of speech, point of view, setting and theme of a text

constitute a universe of ideas within an internal order. These devices of literary

work will more estranging. Formalists prioritize the medium over the content. As

implicated in the term ‘formalism’, ‘form’ is considered synonymous to content.

As has been explained above, the formalism theory will be applied in this

thesis. Derived from all explanation above, figurative language is one of the way

to analyze a piece of work of literature. The writer puts this approach by looking

at the beneficial of formalism itself in which analyze a literary work.

However, in order to reveals the answer of third objectives of the study, the

witer will use teaching media theory as the framework theory to analyze the

constribution of figurative language used in song lyrics toward English teaching.

Song is one of teaching media that can be used to teach any material, it

may be used to create a more relaxing in learning foreign language. It also can be

used to teach vocabulary because in the lyrics of song there are several kinds of

vocabularies.

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2.8.2 Second Language Acquisition

Developing theorytical framework as the theory for teaching English as foreign

language (TEFL), the teacher frequently thought about the way that theories

applied, the used of media, and the good methods, techniques relevanced. There is

not one perfect theory in second language acquisition (SLA). As Spolsky (1989)

states, “ any theory of second language learning that leads to a single method must

be wrong “. Departs from the explanation above teacher can combines theories to

develop an apropriate English teaching. According to Cook (2011) stated, the

teacher needs to do whatever is necessary, not just what is scientifically proven,

but also combine parts of theories that best serve their students’ needs. Second

language acquistion (SLA) is a very abstract and technical branch of TEFL. SLA

wrapped by several types of methodologies of English teaching which is any one

of them are wrong when it applied in classroom. Departs from the explanation

above, SLA theory will be applied as the second theorytical framework for this

study regarding to the beneficial and contstribution of song lyrics for English

teaching in teaching English as foreign language, in which the teacher can rely on

a sense of cultures, histories, and social, (https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/the-

importance-of-teaching-english).

CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 Research Design

In this study, the writer will use the descriptive qualitative research

method. It means that there will be no statistical procedure in other word, the data

will not be measured statistically. It describes the types of figurative language that

are applied in the song and explains what the meaning that songwriter tries to

describe using figurative language in song lyrics.

3.2 Source of The Data

In this study, there are two sources of data: Primary data and Secondary

data.

a. Primary Data Source

In this research, primary data will be taken from eight songs of Selena

Gomez. They are Wolves (2018) (impreska, vo.31.2018), The Heart Wants what it

Wants (2014) (for you.2014), Kill Them with Kindness (2016) (revival.2015),

Camouflage (2015 )(revival. 2015), Love Will Remember (2013 ) (stars

dance.2013 ), Stars dance (2011) (when the sun goes down), Back To You (2017)

(soundtrack”13 reasons why). Who Says (2012).

b. Secondary Data Source

Secondary data source are history books, articles, reviews of

reasearch which supporting primary data which are related to

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figurative language. It means that in secondary data source to

strengthen the results of the analysis of primary data source, thus that

argument and theory in paper accepted.

3.3 Method of Collecting Data

The method of collecting data in this study is documenting method. This

method focuses on the bibliographical resources by collecting some information

from books, website, dictionary, and other which are relevant to the topic of this

study. The writer runs several steps. First, listening to seven songs of Selena

Gomez. Second, reading the lyrics song of eight songs. After that, the writer

highlightinglyric which consist of figurative language in it.

3.4 Method of Data Analysis

In this research the writer will use analytic and decriptive method in

context of formalism theoritical approach indoing so the writer uses some

procedures as follows :

a. Identification of figurative language

From the data collected, the first step in analysis figurative

language is identification of figurative language its self,

identification the meaning and finding out the constribution toward

English teaching. In doing identification the writer will make use

the codes in order to make easier in identifying.

a.1 Encoding

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In doing identification the writer will use the codes in order to

make easier in identifying. The encoding will be drawn in the table

below :

No Song

Figurative Language

LineTypes Lyric

1 ........ ........ ......... ..........

The meaning of figurative language which found in some lyrics

will be explained in the table below :

No Song Lyric Meaning 1 ………. …….. …….

b. Classification of figurative language

The second step is classification of figurative language. The

figurative language which is found in lyric will be classified in

terms of their own types of figurative language, such as,hyperbole,

methaphor, simile and personification.

c.Explanation of meaning of figurative language

In this last step, the writer tries to explain the meaning behind the

figurative language, and find out the purpose.

d. Describing the constribution of the figurative languages study

toward English teaching.

CHAPTER IV

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the analysis of figurative language used in seven

songs of Selena Gomez. It involves the explanation about the types of figurative

languages used, the meaning of figurative language in the lyric and also

contributions of figurative languages in seven song’s of Selena Gomez to English

teaching. This analysis concerns the types of figurative languages used, meaning

of figurative languages within lyric, and its contributions toward English teaching.

4.1 Findings

The writer found twenty four figurative languages in seven songs of

Selena Gomez, which are eleven hyperbole, four metaphor, three simile, and two

personification. The most figuuative languages used in seven songs of Selena

Gomez is hypebole The first song entitled Wolves presents four hyperbole, one

personification. In the second position, The Heart Wants What It Wants, it has

three metaphor, three hyperbole, three simile and only one personification. Third

in Love Will Remember reveals one personification and one hyperbole. The

fourth, song entiled Star Dance it has two hyperbole. The fifth, Kill Em With

Kindness song it has three metaphor. Next in Back To You, the song reveals two

personification and two hyperbole. The last song, Who Says there are two

metaphor. The writer reveals eight contributions of the study toward English

teaching at senior high school. Those findings will be mentioned bellow :

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Table 1. The types of figurative languages used in seven songs of Selena Gomez.

No Title of Song Figurative Languages LineTypes Lyrics

1 Wolves Hyperbole 1. I’ve running with thewolves.

8,39

2. I’ve been running through the jungle.

7,17,38,47

3. Blindly I am following.

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2 The HeartWants What It

Wants

Metaphor 4. This is a modern fairy tales

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5. No wind in our sails 39Simile 6. Shining like stars 19

7. Lighting me up like Venus

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8. And every second’s like torture

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Hyperbole 9. But I’m not alive until you call

11,28,45

10. There’s million reason why I should give you up.

15,32,49

11. You got me scatteredin pieces.

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3 Love WillRemember

Personification 12. Love will remember you, love will remember me.

9,19,29,34

Hyperbole 13. We lit the whole world up, before we blew it up.

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4 Stars Dance Hyperbole 14. Light up the moon I can make the stars dance.

7,15,24

15. Everything I touch turns to love.

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5 Kill Em WithKindness

Metaphor 16. Your lies are bullets 3017. Your mouth’s a gun 3118. Kill em with

kindness6,7,8,9,22-26,36-40

6 Back To You Personification 19. Thought that I can chase you with a coldevening.

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20. Let a couple years 3

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water down how I’m feeling about you.

Hyperbole 21. You could break my heart in two.

9,27,41

22. You’re stuck in my head and I can’t get you out of it.

32,51

7 Who Says Metaphor 23. When you’re a diamond in a rough.

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Metaphor 24. Won’t let you touch the sky.

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Table 2. The meanings of figurative languages used in seven songs of Selena Gomez.

No Song Lyric Meaning

1 Wolves

1. I've been runningwith the wolves

She will do anything to getthe man’s love, no matterhow painful the strugglemight come to her.

2. I've been runningthrough thejungle

The woman would like todo anything to please theman she loves.

3. Blindly I amfollowing

She gives all her undividedattention just for him, eventhough she doesn’t knowwether the man will loveher or not. .

2 The Heart WantsWhat It Wants

4. This is a modernfairy tale

A modern fairy tale is ametaphor for her sadrelationship.

5. No wind in oursails

There is nothing which cansupporting her relationshiptill the end.

6. Shining like stars She feels like the mosthappiest women in theworld.

7. Lighting me uplike Venus

The woman feel great ofhow the man pleased her.

8. And everysecond’s liketorture

When the man left her shestarting to feel lonely,broken heart, and painful.

9. But I’m not aliveuntill you call

She feels insecure andquestioning theirrelationship . the only curefor her insecurity is theman’s call.

10. There’s million There are a lot of reasons

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reasons why Ishould give youup

why she should end herrelationship with the man.

11. You got mescattered inpieces

The man makes the womanbroken and miserable.

3 Love WillRemember

12. Love willremember you,love willremember me

The memories of love willstay in their heart and theirmind. It would never beforgotten.

13. We lit the wholeworld up, beforewe blew it up,

She felt that her relationshipwas perfect untill theybroken up.

4 Stars Dance

14. Light up themoon, I canmake the starsdance

She can make the man feelhappy and believe that theman will amazed by her.

15. Everything Itouch turns tolove

Everything she do, willmake him happy.

5 Kill Em WithKindness

16. Your lies arebullets

Bullets is a metaphor for alies, they both might be ableto hurt person.

17. Your mouth's agun

Gun is a metaphor for amouth. They both aredangerious.

18. Kill em withkindness

Defeating negative thing(bullying) with positiveaction.

6. Back To You

19. Thought that Icould chase youwith a coldevening.

She could not believes thatthe man she loves left her,she tried to be back togetherbut it doesn’t work.

20. Let a coupleyears water downhow I'm feelingabout you

The time will erase thememories about him overher mind.

21. You could breakmy heart in two

The man she loves might beable to hurt her and makeher sad.

22. You're stuck inmy head and Ican't get you outof it

The memories of the manshe loves will always stayin her mind forever.

23. When you're a A girl have to be brave and

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7 Who Says

diamond in therough

be your self, ignoring whathater says about us. Innerbeauty reveals when webelieve it would be.

24. Won't let youtouch the sky

It describe the people thatalways thinking that we cannot achieve what we dreamabout and would not be onthe top.

Table 3. The contributions of figurative languages used in song lyrics to English

teaching.

No Contributions1 Song lyrics is the tools to strenghten and reinforce vocabulary, listening,

speaking.2 Song usually easy to obtained and teacher can select the song to suit the

needs and interest of the students.3 Through music song, teachers can makes environment more enthusiastic. 4 Songs offer a good variety of language samples and prepare the students for

genuine language that students will face.5 Songs are regarded as one of the mostly-enjoyed activities and one the most

effective language learning strategies by most young learners.6 Songs provide a large amount of repition which is not tedious and which

results in automatic use of the target language.7

Using song as medium to teach can control timing easily.8 Song provide a variety of new vocabulary for students.

4.2 Discussion

4.2.1 Types of Figurative Language in Seven Songs of Selena Gomez

4.2.1.2 Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Wolves

Wolves is one of the song of Selena Gomez, she collaborates with DJ

Marsmello to arrange the song into EDM version. Wolves is the third single of

Selena Gomez released in 2017, following her album Revival. It’s releasead on

25th October 2017. It was written by Gomez, Ali Tamposi, Louis Bell, Brian Lee,

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Carl Rosen, Marshmello and Andrew Watt, which handled by Latter Two

production.

The song is about the journey of love to get the man’s love. Through the

lyrics we can see that there is a woman who truly loves the man. Moreover, to get

the man’s love she is willing to do anything just to get the man’s love. Every

lines of the lyrics shows seriousness of the woman to get the man’s attention, no

matter what would she face, she will face it only for the man she loves. As we can

see in lyrics seventh till eighth in which through the lyrics its shows sacrifices

that the woman does for him.

The writer finds one type of figurative languages in this song. There are

three hyperbole. The following expressions are used to represent the feeling of the

song writer which is delivered to listeners.

a. Hyperbole

(1) “I've been running with thewolves”

The expression “I've been running with the wolves” is exaggeration,

because in reality no body would stand to run with the wild or beast animal

like wolve, tiger, lion, etc. This exaggeration concluded as hyperbole

(2) “I’ve been running through the jungle”

Same as the expression above, the woman represents herself as a wonder

woman who enable to do an extreme journey. The word “jungle” as a sign of

overstatemating in hyperbole. As we know that jungle is the wild teritory that

seems posible to run through it especialy for an ordinary woman who in love.

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(3) “Blindly I am following ”

This is other exaggeration of expression which use word blindly as

hyperbolic sign. This expression used a single word to emphasize the

woman’s fight. In fact, human being cannot see if they’re blind.

4.2.1.2 Figurative Language in The Song entitled The Heart Wants What It

Wants

The song “The Heart Wants What It Wants” is a song by Selena Gomez

from her 2014 compilation album For You. It was released on 6th November

2014, through Hollywood Records. The song was written by Gomez, Antonina

Armanto, David Lost, and Tim James.

The song is revealing the woman’s feelings of dissapointment, dilema, and

love. She is always screwing up with her boyfriend’s act. He always saying that

he will be a better man but the woman found he lied to her. But, she believes that

they are meant to be together. She need to make her boyfriend realize how much

she loves him, even though he is always make the woman sad and mad.

Sometimes, she feels like already give up and can not stand for their relationship

but she found her heart always into the man. She tries to make sure that her

boyfriend is a bad man and does not to deserved her love but again she found

herself back to him, because her heart choose him.

The songwriter delivers listeners through the lyrics of how the heart has it

own power to choose whether it is true love or fake love. The writer find nine

lyrics which is containing the types of figuratives language there are three

metaphors, three similes, two personifications and one hyperbole.

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a. Metaphor

(4) “ This is modern fairy tale”

The second metaphor is “This is modern fairy tale”. This expression

classified into metaphor because in this expression the woman implies her worse

relationship as a modern fairy tale. As we know that every fairy tales will always

achieve its happy ending.

(5) “ No wind in our sails ”

The last expression is desribed the condition of the woman’s relationship

with the man. She draws her relationship as a sail.

b. Simile

(6) “ Shining like stars and screaming”

The eleventh expression called simile because the woman uses the word

like to draws resemblance of the feeling that she feels. This expression used the

word likeas the sign of simile.

(7) “ Lighting me up like Venus”

The next expression is classified as a simile. This expression used the

word like to describe the feeling of being loved by someone.

(8) “ Every second’s like torture”

Expression thirteen “ Every second’s like torture,” not only contain

hyperbolic expression, but also a simile. The lyric is presenting the woman’s

feelinng of lonely, empty, hurt, and misarable. This song use word like to shows

the resemblance of the woman feels.

b. Hyperbole

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(9) “ But I’m not alive untill you call”

The hyperbolic expression can be found in “ But I’m not alive untill you

call “ expression. It is overstamating an expression of how she would be alive

only if the man call her, instead of knowing she is already alive.

(10) “ You got me scattered in pieces”

The second expressions desribes how bad the feeling of the woman when

the man leaves her. The man broke her heart and it realy hurt her. This expression

uses exaggeration to draws the woman’s pain. In fact that the woman would not

become pieces if she feels hurt, moreover scatteres in pieces.

(11) “There’s million reasons why I should give you up”

This expression “There’s million reasons why I should give you up”, used

a word million to creates exaggeration sense. In this matter, the woman has lot of

reason why she should end up her relation with her man.

4.2.1.3 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Love Will Remember

The song “Love Will Remember” is a song by American singer Selena

Gomez. Taken from debut solo album Stars. Lyrically, this song is revealing her

relationship with Justin Bieber. The song “Love Will Remember” was released on

This song is about the woman and the man who have broken up, but they

still have the feelings for each other. However, they know that their relationship

would not work. Every time they tried to move on they find theirself always

remember their were loved each other, so they can not move on. But they believe

that their love will always be there and their memories will last forever.

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a. Personification

( 13 )“ Love will remember you, love will remember me”

The first expression “ Love will remember you, love will remember me” ,

here the song writer has given a love the ability to remember like human being.

This expression represent how powerful love is.

b. Hyperbole

(14) “ We lit the whole world up, before we blew it up”

This expression above classified as hyperbole because here, through the

lyric the song writer wrote the exaggeration of something beyond human mind.

The truth that human being cannot lit and blew a world.

4.2.1.4 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Stars Dance

The Song “Stars Dance” is the debut solo album by Selena Gomez. It was

released on 19th July, 2013, by Hollywood Records.

This story behind the song is about the woman who truly love her man.

Everthing she do is just for the man she loves. Even though she will try her best to

make the man into her. She thinks that the man has the same feeling as her.

Through the lyrics the song writer tells the listener how great the feeling of fall in

love.

a. Hyperbole

(15) “ Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance “

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In the eighteenth expression, the writer found hyperbolic expression,

“Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance” classified into hyperbolic

expression because of its imposibility. Human being can not make moon light and

make stars dance.

( 16) “ Everything I touch turns to love”

The next hyperbolic expression can be found in expression, “Everything I

touch turns to love”. This hyperbolic expression use clause I touch turns to love

as its hyperbole’s sign. It is shows overstamating and exaggerating something.

4.2.1.5 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Kill Em With Kindness

Kill Em With Kindness is the second tracks and fourthand last single on

Selena Gomez second solo album, Revival, released on October 9th, 2015. The

song was written by Selena Gomez and Davé Audé. It was produced by Rock

Mafia and Benny Blanco.

This song reveals the fact that using peaceful actions to overcome our

everyday obstacles and limitations would guide us to a peaceful life. It’s kind of

motto song in order to bring the listener to live better life. Through the lyrics we

can feel the energy of powerness, braveness that served by the song writer. In this

song, also said that there is no war and anger was ever solved the problem in life.

a. Metaphor

(17) “ Your lies are bullets “

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Expression 17th is classified as a metaphor, because here the implies a lie

as a bullet which may be able to hurt somebody through bullets. The song writer

believes that lies will guided a person to wrong way.

(18) “ Your mouth is gun”

The second expression of metaphor of this song is “ your mouth is gun “,

it is classified as methapor because the same reason as above lyric. The song

writer describes the similarity between a mouth and a gun which has the same

meaning within this song. A gun is a metaphorical word for a mouth.

(19 ) “ Kill em with kindness”

The last expression is “Kill em with kindness “, here the song writer

drawss the similary between the kindness and weapon implicitly. The song writer

makes the word kindness as the tool or weapon to break something. However,

here kill refers to an act which actually means againts the negative opinions from

people around us (bullying).

4.2.1.6 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Back To You

“Back To You” is a song by American singer Selena Gomez. It was

written by Amy Allen, Gomez, Parris Warrington, Diederik Van Elsas and Micah

Premnath. It was produced by Trackside and Ian Kirkparick. This song was

released on May 10th as the lead single from the soundtrack of the second season

Netflix’s original series 13 Reasons Why.

This song is about the woman who still love her ex-boyfriend even though

they are not still together. Every time she try to forget about the man, she always

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find herself remember him. The man will always come into her mind, and finally

she could not move on and started a new life. According to this song, she knows

that the person is not good for her but she still says that if she will get

anotherchance to relives the old memories thaht she would like to spend all her

memories again with her ex.

a. Personification

(20) “Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening”

The first personification can be seen in expression in lines twentith

“Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening”. Through this lyric, the

song writer implies that could evening has the ability to chase someone. As we

know that only living thing would have the ability to chase something, especially

human being.

(21) “ Let a couple years water down how I’m feeling about you “

The next personification expression can be found in “Let a couple years

water down how I’m feeling about you”. The song writer has given the couple

years the ability to watering feeling which is seems imposible and very human

thing. Through the lyric the song writer represent the women’s hope who try to

forget the memories about the man she loves rely on the time.

b. Hyperbole

(22) “ You could break my heart in two”

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The first hyperbolic expression is “You could break my heart in two”. This

expression classified as hyperbole because its exaggeration. In fact that nobody

would breaks someone’s heart into two just because she/he made some mistake in

a relationship. No human being would dare to break their love’s heart into two, its

imposible.

(21) “You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it”

Other hyperbolic expression used can be found in the 21st expression,

“You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it” , this exaggeration

expression made the man trapped in woman’s head. Definetely, no body would be

able stuck into somebody’s head, however through the lyric the song writer make

it possible using figurative languages called hyperbole. Its sounds imposible and

exaggerates something.

4.2.1.7 Figurative Language in The Song entitled Who Says

The song “ Who Says” is a song by Selena Gomez coraborated with The

Scene. The song was released in March 2011, as the lead single from the band’s

third album, When the Sun Goes Down (2011).

This song included as motivation song , we can see through the lyrics the

song writer tell us that we should not listen to what other people say about us.

Nobody can tell us something bad about what we do or who we are. The song also

bring us to be who we are, we should not let others change us by their own

opinion. Through this song people especially the women have to be proud of their

own beauty, it’s also about how represent ourselves become beautiful through our

inner beauty. The way we live a life is depends on us not others’ opinion. This

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song is about being ourselves and not letting anyone telling us what we can do or

can be.`

a. Metaphor

(23) “When you're a diamond in the rough”

The expression twenty three is classified as metaphor, because here the

song writer draws resemblance between the girl and diamond. Here, through the

expression the song writer would like to tell every girl all over the world that they

are beautiful no matter what other says.

b. Hyperbole

(24) “Won't let you touch the sky”

The writer is classifying twenty fourth expressions “Won't let you touch the

sky” as hyperbole. Because, of its imposibility. The writer mention that every girl

could touch the sky. Here the word sky means succes.

4.2.2 Meanings of Figurative Language in Seven Songs of Selena Gomez

4.2.2.1 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Wolves

(1) “I've been running with thewolves”

The writer is classifying second lyric as hyperbole. Here the woman had

has passing the most difficult struggle in her life resemblances to a wolves.

Actually, in fact that no body would stand over running with wild animal such as

wolf, tiger, lion, etc. But through this song this expression represents the sacrifices

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that the woman had been through for the sake of the man she loves. She is willing

to face anything to get the man’s love.

(2) “ I’ve been running through the jungle “

This expression shows exaggeration as the expression above. the writer

classifies third expression as hyperbole. Because here, the woman has been

running through the jungle, passing all strugles which came to her. She would

sacrifies and do everything to get the man’s love. This expression “I’ve been

running through the jungle” draws the woman’s seriousness and confession of

how she love the man, and willing to do everything for him.

(3) “Blindly I am following”

Expression third is classified as hyperbole because its overstating something.

Here the woman is stating that she follows the man to the place that she never

been before, blindly. This expression is an exaggeration because a person cannot

following someone if that person has dissabity to see (blind). But here, the song

writer points out the woman’s sincerity of how she loves the man, and she is

willing to do everything for him.

4.2.1.2 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled The Heart

Wants What It Wants

(4) “ This is a modern fairytale “

Expression fifth is classified as a metaphor. Because , here the woman

states that his miserable relationship with the man is the same as a modern

fairytale, in which the realationship would not ends with happy ending which is

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differents from the old fairytale. As we know that a fairytale must be ended by

happy ending. This expression describes their worse relationship that seems will

be ended with sad ending.

(5) “ No wind in our sails “

The last metaphor can be found in sixth expressions. Here, the woman

compares his broken relationship with the sail which can not moving because no

wind push it. Here the word wind compares with their feel, support,

comminication, love which none of them within their relationship. The woman

feels her relation would not work well, because both of them not feeling the same

way. The woman feels she is the only one who fight for their relations, not the

man. She thinks it won’t last forever.

(6) “ Shining like stars and Screaming “

This simile expression tells how happy the woman is. The woman feels so

great about herself when the man she loves treats her like she could’ve shines a

the stars. The feeling that she feel is wonderful as the star’s shine. The word like

as its sign of simile. The song writer compares a human feeling as shining stars. In

fact, no body wappears as bright as stars’ shine. Thorugh this lyric, the song

writer draws the happines feeling of the woman who treated well by the man she

loves.

(8) “Lighting me up like Venus “

The second simile could be found in eighth expression. This expression

used by the song writer to accentuates the woman feeling when she treated great

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by the man. The word like used as its sign. The woman feels really happy and

great when the man she loves loved her back. Untill, the man let her, and she feel

broken heart. Through this lyric, the song writer resemblace the human feeling

with a planet (Venus) which is not particularly alike. As we know, Venus is one

of the lightest planet on the space. Therefore, to resemblance the happines of the

woman, the song writer compares it with Venus.

(7) “ And every second like torture “

The last expression of simile could be found in seventh expression. Here,

the woman feels realy mess and miserable when the man left her. It hurts a lot

because she feels the man is actualy plays her. Everythime she need him, he

always unavailable for her. Untill, the officialy left her. She feels realy sad, and

she tortured by the man’s leaving. However, the woman still thinks that they still

love each other.

(8) “ But I’m not alive untill you call”

The hyperbolic expression can be found in “ But I’m not alive untill you

call “ expression. It is overstamating an expression of how she would be alived

only if the man call her, instead of knowing she is already alive. Here, the woman

implies of how tired she is of waiting what would be happen to her relation with

the man. She is wondering how to refresh the love again. She feels empty without

the man beside her. He wants to show how happy she is when the man came back.

(9) “There is a millions reasons why I should give you up”

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The woman would give up on the man. There are a lot of reasons why she

has to end up her relationship with him, but the way she tries, she finds herself

back to him. Thorugh the lyric, the song writer wrote millions reasons, this word

its a sign of hyperbole.The function of hyperbole is to exaggerate something.

(10) “ You got me scattered in pieces”

The next hyperbolic expression is “You got me scattered in pieces”. Here

the woman draws the condition of what she felt. She feels so mess and broken

when the man leaves. The woman decribes her feeling, she feels like pieces of

paper which scattered. Its shows exaggeration because, the man would not be able

to make the woman scattered in pieces except he mutilates her. But again, no man

would do cruel thing to the woman he loved.

(11) “ But the heart wants what it wants”

This 11st expression called personification. The song writer gives a heart

the ability to choose. In fact a heart can not choose whatever it wants, but here the

song writer draws the power of using heart instead of head to feel what is good

and worse.

4.2.2.3 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Love Will

Remember

(12) “ Love will remember me, love will remember you “

The twelveth expression categorized as personification because it

imposibility. A love has no ability to remember. This expression represents the

woman’s believe of their relationship where they were together. The woman

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believes that their memories of love and happiness will always stay in their heart

and mind although they are separated. The memories of the man will always stay

in the woman’s heart and mind. This expressions mentioned that love is stronger

than another things.

(13) “We lit the whole world up, before we blew it up “

The hyperbolic expression in this song could be found in the (13th)

expression. This expression used by the song writer to delivers the woman feeling

when they were in loved untill they got break up. The woman explains how happy

she was in the beginning but in the end everything’s gone. She feel complete

whenever her relationship works well, that feeling feel like they could’ve lit the

world up but when it did not its feel like the world blew it up and turns became

dark. Actually, in reality no body would have the ability to blow and to light the

world up, it is shows impossibily and exaggeration. but here the song writer

accentuates the woman’s feeling through the lyric.

4.2.2.4 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Stars

Dance

(14) “ Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance”

The sample of hyperbole could be found in (7,15,24) expression. This

expression serves the listener the feeling of happines of the woman in love. Here,

the song writer describe the woman feeling of how happy she is when she fall in

love to someone. Even the woman would like to light the moon which is

absolutely imposible to do. But here, to literature everything becomes posible

through a form of words. Here, the impossibility categorized as hyperbole.

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(15) “Everyting I touch turns to love”

The (15th) expression above classified as hypebolic expression. This

expression classified as hyperbole because its impossibility, here the song writer

wrappes the woman’s feeling of love by the exaggeration expression. The woman

wants to make the man happy and wish she could be a part of his heart by doing

everyting which would make the man fall in love to her. It means she could do

everything to get the man love by doing everything which the man loves.

4.2.2.5 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Kill Them

With Kindness

(16) “ Your lies are bullets”

This expression above classified as metaphor because here the song writer

resemblance the word lies with bullets. The song writer compares those two

words because of its similarity, which enable to hurt someone to death. Lies hurts

and viceversa.

(17) “ You mouth is a gun”

The second metaphor can be found in seventeenth expression. This

expression tell the listener about the danger of mouth whenever you use it

unwisely. The song writer use the word gun and mouth to represent one negative

metaphorical word. Thorugh the lyric, it is explained that between mouth and gun,

both are hurting weapon . Mouth has the power to hurt people orally, and gun has

the power to hurt people physically. In fact, these two things is different.

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(18) “Kill em with kindness”

The twentith expression classified as metaphor because here, the song

writer used the word kindness pretended to be a thing (weapon) that enable to kill.

In fact, here the word kill refers to an act which is actually mean againts the

negative thing, opinion from people around us.

4.2.2.6 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Back To

You

(19) “ Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening”

Expression 21 “Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening” not

only contain metaphor but also personification. This expression shows

impossibility in which a cold evening has given the power to chase the man as

human in general. However, here through the lyric the song writer tells the

woman’s feeling who missing her ex boyfriend and she could not move on. She

believes that the man still loves her too.

(20) “ Let a couple years water down how I feeling about you”

The second personification could be found in twentyth expression. This

expression describes the woman’s feeling of surrendered, she believes that time

will erase the memory of the man slowly. But in fact, it does not work, the woman

finds herself loves him over and over again Here, the song writer gives the word

acouple years in order to have the ability to watering something just like human

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being in fact that, a year cannot do anything like watering, crying, wiping, and so

on.

(21) “You could break my heart in two “

The hyperbolic expression could be found in twenty first expression “You

could break my heart in two”. This expression is an exaggeration because its

impobility. Through the lyric the song writer reveals that the woman feeling of

truth love. The woman believes that only the man she loves would be able to hurt

her heart. She knows that whenever the man hurt her, any how her heart will be

back to love him again and again no matter how many times he ruined it. Because

the man has owned her heart.

(22) “ You’re stuck in my head”

The last hyperbolic expression can be found in this expression “You’re

stuck in my head”. Here, the expression classified as hyperbolic because of its

impossiblity and exaggeration. Through the lyric, the song writer represents the

woman’s love of how she could not resist the man. She could not ever forget the

man, the man’s memories and everything that they’ve been thorugh wont leaves

over her mind. The sentence you’re stuck in my head and I can’t get you out of it,

accentuates that the woman would not be able to forget about him, the man will

always forever in her mind and heart.

4.2.2.7 The Meaning of Figurative Languages in The Song entitled Who Says

(23) “ When you’re a diamond in the rough”

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This expression above categorized as metaphor because here the song

writer compare the resemblance between a girl and a diamond to decribed the

characteristic of true beauty (inner beauty). Therefore, the song writer wrote that a

good manner girl same as a diamond in the rough, here a diamond in rough would

not be seen beauty outside and similar to a girl who has ordinary looks, but inside

she has a pure heart reflexely, it will comes out as an inner beauty. This simalirity

shows that everything which started from heart it will seen as true beauty. As big

message which implied in this song.

(24) “ Won’t let you touch the sky”

The second metaphor could be found in 24 expression. This expression

classified as metaphor because here the song writer use the word sky to connotated

the word success. Through the lyric the song writer is supporting the girls who

thought that they would not be able to achieve their success by gives them quotes

of life which can courages their spirit and give them a true motivation.

4.2.3 Contribution of the Study to English Teaching

Song lyric is one of the sources and media to teach English as foreign

language. It serves several kinds of activities in lesson such as, listen, performs

song, talk about the lyric, talk about the singer, study grammar, translate songs,

etc. The fisrt thing that should be noted is the song is the most enjoyable way of

learning English.Therefore, teachers probably should use song as part of their

classroom lesson. Based on the findings mentioned above, the writer reveals the

contributions of this study toward students of second grade (XI) of senior high

and vocational school within English teaching. Based on the findings, here some

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explanations why songs gives well contributions in foreign language classroom.

As we know that Indonesia’s curricullum thirteen includes song as one of the goal

that need to be reach through as we called basic competence. Regard to as what

have been mentioned in theoritical approaches before, the writer use to tend some

method to creates the learning and teaching process more fun.

Students gained new variety of vocabulary from the song and it helps them

to increase their words to produce new phrase, clause, sentence and expression to

become their own provision to face real world, out side of the classroom. Beside

that, song also is the tool to develop the four skill areas reading, writing, listening,

and speaking. Later on to achieve the target language, the teacher should build

enthusiastic enviroments in order to reboost students, again a song can cover it.

Through song, the atmosphere of the classroom more fun because it brings its own

characteristics where the song came from. Nevertheless, to connect students with

the song, the teacher should know first what the needs and interests. The used of

songs in the teaching and learning process is more fun, enthusiastic, valuable

without neglecting pedagogical value. The writer experiences that the students are

able to enrich their vocabulary. Furthermore, they know how to present their idea

based on the song that they listened to. Moreover, using song as the part of

teaching process not tedious although large amount of repititon in which results

automatic use of target language. One of the superiority of using song as part of

teaching as foregin language is, the teachers can easily controls the time of the

way teaching prosess runs. Based on the basic competenses in lesson plan of

second grade of senior highschool it it found that almost all indicators met the

goals. That means the songs material has given big constribution to reinforce,

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enhance, reboot students knowledge and the way they learn more fun and

meaningfull if teachers applied song as part of their lesson.

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion

Figurative language is a tool to beautify literary work, and it’s a language

which people use to express their thoughts, ideas, and feeling unliterary. There are

plenty types of figurative languages started from simile, hyperbole, metaphor,

personification, and so on. Every types of figurative language has it own function

to be used to convey a word, phrase, clause, or a sentence. This thesis focused on

analysing personification, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole in seven songs of

Selena Gomez.

The writer elaborates the findings on figurative languages which reveals

twenty four figurative languages in seven songs of Selena Gomez. The most

figurative language which use in these seven songs is hypebole. This study

analyze figurative language in terms of meanings and types and also the

constribution toward English teaching at SMA by which figurative language

within songs to be used as material for teaching English.

The function of figurative languages in seven songs of Selena Gomez are

to beautify the lyric and to draws the feeling of love, hatred, broken heart, betray,

dilema, sincerity, fighting, and regret in more fancy and interesting way of saying.

Through song lyric, human being can feel so many emotion such as love, hatred,

fond, even dissampointment. The writer concluded that song lyric is suitable for

English learners’ related to the constributions in teaching English at SMA.

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5.2 Suggestions

After drawing a conclusion the writer proposes some suggestions, as follows :

To analyze figurative language in song lyric, the next researcher

has to analyze and understand the song fisrt to make analysis more

easy

To make the analysis more intense, the next researcher has to

specify ceartain types of figurative language.

The next researcher suggested to anlyzed another aspect of this

song such as, moral values, character, and plot.

This study is also expected to enrich students knowledge of

figurative languages expecially in Selena Gomez’s song.

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APPENDICES

Appendix I

Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer. She signed a

recording contract with Hollywood Records in 2008 and subsequently formed her

band Selena Gomez & the Scene the following year. The band released three

studio albums by 2011. Having appeared as a child in the children’s television

series Barney & Friends, Gomez rose to fame as the leading role in the Disney

channel series Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–12). Due to the success of the

series, Gomez worked on various films, television shows, and musical

collaborations for the network in the following years.

In 2014, Gomez fired her parents as her managers and signed with the

WME and Brillstein companies. During this time, she signed a new recording

contract with Interscope Records, releasing a compilation album as her fifth and

final release through Hollywood Records. Gomez released her second studio

album, Revival, in October 2015. The album debuted at number one on the

Billboard 200, while the first three singles all topped the Mainstream Top 40 chart

in the United States. She embarked on her worldwide Revival Tour in 2016.

Gomez is currently working on her third studio album.

Gomez hoped to focus on her acting career by transitioning into film work,

earning starring roles in films such as Ramona and Beezus (2010) and the

romantic comedy Monte Carlo (2011). Gomez hoped to achieve a more mature

image with a role in the exploitation film Spring Breakers (2013), as well as with

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the release of her solo debut album Stars Dance (2013). The album debuted atop

the Billboard 200 in the United States, and included “Come & Get It”. Gomez

embarked on her Stars Dance Tour (2013), though it was later canceled due to

personal and medical struggles. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez).

Appendix II

1) Wolves

In your eyes, there's a heavy blue

One to love and one to lose

Sweet divide, a heavy truth

Water or wine, don't make me choose

I wanna feel the way that we did that summer night (night)

Drunk on a feeling, alone with the stars in the sky

I've been running through the jungle

I've been running with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you

I've been down the darkest alleys

Saw the dark side of the moon

To get to you, to get to you

I've looked for love in every stranger

Took too much to ease the anger

All for you, yeah, all for you

I've been running through the jungle

I've been crying with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you (oh to get to you)

Your fingertips trace my skin

To places I have never been

Blindly I am following

Break down these walls and come on in

I wanna feel the way that we did that summer night

Drunk on a feeling, alone with the stars in the sky

I've been running through the jungle

I've been running with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you

I've been down the darkest alleys

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Saw the dark side of the moon

To get to you, to get to you

I've looked for love in every stranger

Took too much to ease the anger

All for you, yeah, all for you

I've been running through the jungle

I've been crying with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you (oh to get to you)

I've been running through the jungle

I've been running with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you

I've been down the darkest alleys

Saw the dark side of the moon

To get to you, to get to you

I've looked for love in every stranger

Took too much to ease the anger

All for you, yeah, all for you

I've been running through the jungle

I've been crying with the wolves

To get to you, to get to you (oh to get to you)

2) The Heart Wants What It Wants

You got me sippin' on something

I can't compare to nothing

I've ever known, I'm hoping

That after this fever I'll survive

I know I'm acting a bit crazy

Strung out, a little bit hazy

Hand over heart, I'm praying

That I'm gonna make it out alive

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The bed's getting cold and you're not here

The future that we hold is so unclear

But I'm not alive until you call

And I'll bet the odds against it all

Save your advice 'cause I won't hear

You might be right but I don't care

There's a million reasons why I should give you up

But the heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

You got me scattered in pieces

Shining like stars and screaming

Lighting me up like Venus

But then you disappear and make me wait

And every second's like torture

Hell over trip, no more so

Finding a way to let go

Baby, baby, no I can't escape

The bed's getting cold and you're not here

The future that we hold is so unclear

But I'm not alive until you call

And I'll bet the odds against it all

Save your advice 'cause I won't hear

You might be right but I don't care

There's a million reasons why I should give you up

But the heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

This is a modern fairy tale

No happy endings

No wind in our sails

But I can't imagine a life without

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Breathless moments

Breaking me down, down, down, down

The bed's getting cold and you're not here

The future that we hold is so unclear

But I'm not alive until you call

And I'll bet the odds against it all

Save your advice 'cause I won't hear

You might be right but I don't care

There's a million reasons why I should give you up

But the heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants, baby

It wants what it wants, baby

It wants what it wants

It wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants, baby

It wants what it wants

3) Love Will Remember

Now's all we got and time can't be bought.

I know it inside my heart forever will forever be ours.

Even if we try to forget, love will remember.

You said you love me, I said I loved you back

What happened to that, what happened to that

All your promises, and all them plans we had,

What happened to that, what happened to that

Boom gone, yeah we move on, even if we try to forget,

Love will remember you, love will remember me

I know it inside of my heart,

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Forever will forever be ours, even if we try to forget,

Love will remember, love will remember

Love will remember, love will remember, love will remember

The trips we dreamed of taking the tacks left on the map

What happened to that, what happened to that

When all you had was nothing, and all we did was laugh

What happened to that, what happened, what happened to that

Boom gone, yeah we move on, even if we try to forget

Love will remember you, love will remember me

I know it inside of my heart,

Forever will forever be ours, even if we try to forget,

Love will remember, love will remember

Love will remember, love will remember, love will remember

Break down the walls let heaven in, somewhere and forever we'll dance again,

We used to be inseparable, I used to think that I was irreplaceable

We lit the whole world up, before we blew it up,

I still don't know just how we screwed it up

Forever, forever, forever

Love will remember you, love will remember me

I know it inside of my heart,

Forever will forever be ours, even if we try to forget,

Love will remember, love will remember

Love will remember, love will remember, love will remember

Love will remember, love will remember, love will remember, love'll remember

4) Stars Dance

Wake up to your dreams

And watch them come true

I'll make you whisper my name, I'll never leave the room

Night and day, I'll be your muse

No other girl can make you feel the way I do

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I can make the stars dance

Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance

If you want me to

The sky is everywhere, so meet me under there

I can make the stars dance dance dance with you

Don't be afraid, close your eyes

Let me take you to places that you've never been tonight

I thought by know you'd realize I can do anything I put my mind to

I can make the stars dance

Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance

If you want me to

The sky is everywhere, so meet me under there

I can make the stars dance dance dance with you

Everything I touch turns to love

Everything I do will open up heaven

It's dead steady, there's falling and flying in love

Nothing's forever because we are just stars, dance

I can make the stars dance

Light up the moon, I can make the stars dance

If you want me to

The sky is everywhere, so meet me under there

I can make the stars dance dance dance with you

I can make the stars dance

I can make the stars dance

I can make, I can make, I can make the stars dance

The sky is everywhere, so meet me under there

I can make the stars dance dance dance with you

5) Kill Em With Kindness

The world can be a nasty place

You know it, I know it, yeah

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We don’t have to fall from grace

Put down the weapons you fight with

Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em, kill 'em, kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em with kindness

Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead now

We’re running out of time

Chasing our lies

Everyday a small piece of you dies

Always somebody

You’re willing to fight, to be right

Your lies are bullets

Your mouth's a gun

And no war and anger

Was ever won

Put out the fire before igniting

Next time you’re fighting

Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em, kill 'em, kill 'em with kindness

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Kill 'em with kindness

Kill 'em with kindness

Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead now

Go ahead, go ahead now

Go ahead, go ahead now

Your lies are bullets

Your mouth's a gun

No war and anger

Was ever won

Put out the fire before igniting

Next time you’re fighting

Kill 'em, kill 'em, kill 'em with kindness

6) Back To You

Took you like a shot

Thought that I could chase you with a cold evening

Let a couple years water down how I'm feeling about you

(Feeling about you)

And every time we talk

Every single word builds up to this moment

And I gotta convince myself I don't want it

Even though I do (even though I do)

You could break my heart in two

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But when it heals, it beats for you

I know it's forward, but it's true

I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to

When I'm lying close to someone else

You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it

If I could do it all again

I know I'd go back to you

I know I'd go back to you

I know I'd go back to you

We never got it right

Playing and replaying old conversations

Overthinking every word and I hate it

'Cause it's not me ('cause it's not me)

And what's the point in hiding?

Everybody knows we got unfinished business

And I'll regret it if I didn't say

This isn't what it could be (isn't what it could be)

You could break my heart in two

But when it heals, it beats for you

I know it's forward, but it's true

I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to

When I'm lying close to someone else

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You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it

If I could do it all again

I know I'd go back to you

I know I'd go back to you

I'd go back to you

I'd go back to you

What was there wasn't sure

But I'd go back to you

I know I'd go back to you

You can break my heart in two

But when it heals, it beats for you

I know it's forward, but it's true

Won't lie, I'd go back to you

You know, my thoughts are running loose

It's just a thing you make me do

And I could fight, but what's the use?

I know I'd go back to you

I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to

When I'm lying close to someone else

You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it

If I could do it all again

I know I'd go back to you

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I'd go back to you

I'll go back to you

I know I'd go back to you

(I'd go back to you, I'd go back to you)

I know I'd go back to you

(Go back to you, go back to you)

(Go back to you, go back to you)

(Go back to you, go back to you)

7. Who Says

I wouldn't wanna be anybody else.

You made me insecure

Told me I wasn't good enough

But who are you to judge

When you're a diamond in the rough

I'm sure you got some things

You'd like to change about yourself

But when it comes to me

I wouldn't want to be anybody else

Na na na

I'm no beauty queen

I'm just beautiful me

Na na na

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Na na na

You've got every right

To a beautiful life

C'mon

Who says

Who says you're not perfect

Who says you're not worth it

Who says you're the only one that's hurting

Trust me

That's the price of beauty

Who says you're not pretty

Who says you're not beautiful

Who says

It's such a funny thing

How nothing's funny when it's you

You tell 'em what you mean

But they keep whiting out the truth

It's like a work of art

That never gets to see the light

Keep you beneath the stars

Won't let you touch the sky

Na na na

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Na na na

Na na na

Na na na

I'm no beauty queen

I'm just beautiful me

Na na na

Na na na

You've got every right

To a beautiful life

C'mon

Who says

Who says you're not perfect

Who says you're not worth it

Who says you're the only one that's hurting

Trust me

That's the price of beauty

Who says you're not pretty

Who says you're not beautiful

Who says

Who says

Who says you're not star potential

Who says you're not presidential

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Who says you can't be in movies

Listen to me, listen to me

Who says you don't pass the test

Who says you can't be the best

Who said, who said

Would you tell me who said that

Yeah, oh

Who says

Who says

Who says you're not perfect

Who says you're not worth it

Who says you're the only one that's hurting

Trust me

That's the price of beauty

Who says you're not pretty

Who says you're not beautiful

Who says

Who says

Who says you're not perfect

Who says you're not worth it

Who says you're the only one that's hurting

Trust me

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That's the price of beauty

Who says you're not pretty

Who says you're not beautiful

Who says

Appendix III

RENCANA PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN

(RPP)

Satuan Pendidikan : SMAKelas/Semester : XI/2Mata Pelajaran : BahasaInggrisTopik : A SongPertemuanke : 1 dan 2

Waktu : 4x 45 menit

A. Kompetensilnti

3.5 Memahami, menerapkan, menganalisis, dan mengevaluasi pengetahuan faktual,

konseptual, prosedural, dan metakognitif berdasarkan rasa ingin tahunya tentang

ilmu pengetahuan, teknologi, seni, budaya, dan humaniora dengan wawasan

kemanusiaan, kebangsaan, kenegaraan, dan peradaban terkait penyebab fenomena

dan kejadian, serta menerapkan pengetahuan prosedural pada bidang kajian yang

spesifik sesuai dengan bakat dan minatnya untuk memecahkan masalah.

4.5 Mengolah, menalar, menyaji, dan mencipta dalam ranah konkret dan ranah

abstrak terkait dengan pengembangan dari yang dipelajarinya di sekolah secara

mandiri serta bertindak secara efektif dan kreatif, dan mampu menggunakan

metoda sesuai kaidah keilmuan.

B. KompetensiDasar

3.9 Menafsirkan fungsi sosial dan unsur kebahasaan lirik lagu terkait kehidupan remaja

SMA/MA/SMK/MAK

4.9 Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial dan unsur kebahasaan

lirik lagu terkait kehidupan remaja SMA/MA/ SMK/MAK

C. Indikator

3.9 Menafsirkan fungsi sosial dan unsur kebahasaan lirik lagu terkait kehidupan remaja

SMA/MA/SMK/MAK

1. Mengidentifikasi fungsi sosial lagu dan unsur kebahasaan dari lirik lagu.

2. Melengkapi lirik lagu rumpang yang di di dengarkan.

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3. Mengidentifikasi kata atau frase, ungkapan dan tata bahasa dalam lirik lagu.

4. Mengucapkan kosa kata dalam lagu dengan pengucapan yang benar.

4.9 Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial dan unsur kebahasaan

lirik lagu terkait kehidupan remaja SMA/MA/ SMK/MAK

5. Mengidentifikasi makna lagu sederhana.

6. Menentukan gambaran umum sebuah lagu.

7. Menemukan informasi rinci tersirat dan atau tersurat dari sebuah lagu

8. Mempresentasikan lagu yang telah di putarkan.

D. Materi Ajar

a. Teks Rumpang Lagu

Who Says

I wouldn't wanna be

1. ........else.

You made me insecure

Told me I wasn't good enough

But who are you to 2......

When you're a 3............ in the

rough

I'm sure you got some things

You'd like to change about

yourself

But when it 4...... to me

I wouldn't want to be 5........

Trust me

That's the price of 11.......

Who says you're not 12...........

Who says you're not beautiful

Who says

It's such a 13....... thing

How nothing's funny when it's

you

You tell 'em what you 14........

But they 15.........whiting out

the truth

It's like a work of 16........

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else

I'm no beauty 6........

I'm just 7............. me

Who says

Who says you're not 8........

Who 9.......... you're not worth it

Who10.......... you're the only

one that's hurting

That never gets to see the

17......

18.......... you beneath the stars

Won't let you touch the 19........

E. Alokasi Waktu

2 x 60

F. Pendekatan, StrategidanMetodepembelajaran

• Ceramah, TBL (Task Based Learning), Diskusi, Tanya-jawab,

G. Kegiatan Pembelajaran

Pertemuan 1

Kegiatan Deskripsi Alokasi

WaktuPendahuluan Memberikan salam

Mempersilakan salah satu peserta didik memimpin doa

10 menit

Menanyakan kepada peserta didik kesiapan dan kenyamanan

untuk belajar

Menanyakan kehadiran peserta didik

Guru menyampaikanKD,indikatordantujuanpembelajaran

yang ingindicapai.

Tanya jawabtentangadvicepesertadidiksecaraumum.

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Kegiatan Deskripsi Alokasi

WaktuInti Mengamati:

Siswa mendengarkan dan mengamati video tentang lagu yang

diputarkan oleh guru.

Siswa menemukan makna dalam sebuah lagu yang

didengarkan.

Siswa menyebutkan kata atau frase yang ada pada video

tentang lagu yang diputarkan oleh guru.

Siswa menjawab pertanyaan secara lisan dari guru.

Mempertanyakan:

Dengan bimbingan guru, peserta didik menanyakan arti kata sulit

yang ada dalam lagu.

Siswa menanyakan bagaimana pengucapan kata dalam sebuah

lagu.

Mengeksplorasi:

Siswa membedakan frase dan kalimat yang terdapat pada lagu

yang diputarkan oleh guru.

Mengasosiasi:

• Dengan berpasangan siswa mengidentifikasi bagian-bagian

pada lagu yang telah dipedengarkan oleh guru.

Mengkomunikasikan:

Siswa mempresentasikan bagian-bagian pada lagu

kepadatemandan guru

50 menit

Penutup Klarifikasi / kesimpulan peserta didik dibantu oleh guru

menyimpulkan materi tentang lagu.

5 Menit

Peserta didik melakukan refleksi tentang materi yang

telahdipelorehselamapelaksanaan pembelajaran. Guru

menyampaikanrencanapembelajaranuntukpertemuanberikutnya.

Mengucapkan salamPERTEMUAN

2

Deskripsi Alokasi

WaktuPendahuluan Memberikan salam 10 menit

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Kegiatan Deskripsi Alokasi

Waktu Mempersilakan salah satu peserta didik memimpin doa Menanyakan kepada peserta didik kesiapan dan kenyamanan

untuk belajar

Menanyakan kehadiran peserta didik

Guru menyampaikanKD,indikatordantujuanpembelajaran

yang ingindicapai.

Tanya jawabtentangadvicepesertadidiksecaraumum.Inti Mengamati:

Siswa diminta untuk mendengarkan dan memahami lagu yang di

putarkan oleh guru.

Setelah diperdengarkan, siswa diberikan lirik lagu rumpang dan

mengisinya.

Mempertanyakan:

Dengan berkelompok siswa diminta untuk berdiskusi tentang:

Unsur kebahasaan yang terkandung dalam lagu.

Makna lagu

Tenses yang digunakan dalam lagu

Regular verb dan irregular verb yang terkandung dalam lagu

Mengeksplorasi:

Dalam kegiatan ini siswa dipersilakan untuk mencari referensi di

perpustakaan, internet atau bertanya pada sumber lain perihal:

a. Unsur kebahasaan yang terkandung dalam lagu

b. Makna lagu

c. Tenses yang digunakan dalam lagu

d. Regular verb dan irregular verb yang terkandung dalam lagu

Mengasosiasi:

Siswa mencoba mengaplikasikan unsur bahasa yang telah

ditugaskan tadi kepada lagu tersebut.

Mengkomunikasikan:

Siswa kembali ke kelas untuk mempresentasikan temuan mereka.

50menit

Penutup Klarifikasi / kesimpulan peserta didik dibantu oleh guru 5 Menit

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Kegiatan Deskripsi Alokasi

Waktumenyimpulkan materi tentang lagu. Peserta didik melakukan refleksi tentang materi yang

telahdipelorehselamapelaksanaan pembelajaran. Guru

menyampaikanrencanapembelajaranuntukpertemuanberikutnya.

Mengucapkan salamPERTEMUAN

3

Deskripsi Alokasi

WaktuPendahuluan Memberikan salam

Mempersilakan salah satu peserta didik memimpin doa

10 menit

Menanyakan kepada peserta didik kesiapan dan kenyamanan

untuk belajar

Menanyakan kehadiran peserta didik

Guru menyampaikanKD,indikatordantujuanpembelajaran

yang ingindicapai.

Tanya jawabtentangadvicepesertadidiksecaraumum.Inti Mengamati:

Siswa mendengarkan berbagai lagu berbahasa Inggris dan

menyalinnya.

Siswa menirukan penguncapan dengan menyanyikan sesuai

dengan lagu yang didengar.

Siswa belajar membaca intensif untuk menemukan informasi

rinci dan nentukan jedah yang tepat untuk membaca bermakna.

Mempertanyakan:

Dengan pertanyaan pengarah dari guru, siswa terpancing

untuk mempertanyakan pesan pada lagu yang didengar atau

dibaca.

Siswa mempertanyakan cara menemukan informasi rinci dan

kesimpulan dalam lagu.

Mengeksplorasi:

Siswa dalam kelompok menganalisis pesan dari lagu yang didengar/dibaca.

50 menit

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Kegiatan Deskripsi Alokasi

Waktu Siswa membuat beberapa catatan.

Mengasosiasi:

Siswa membacakan teks lagu dengan pengucapan dan tekanan

kata yang tepat.

Siswa belajar menemukan informasi rinci dan kesimpulan dari

lagu.

Siswa berdiskusi dalam kelompok kecil tentang pesan yang

terdapat dalam lagu yang dibaca.

Mengkomunikasikan:

Siswa menyalin lagu dengan tulisan yang rapi dan menuliskan

pesan yang disampaikan dalam sebauh lagu.

Siswa melaporkan hal-hal yang dipelajari dari lagu dan kesulitan

dalam menentukan pesan lagu tersebut.

Siswa membuat jurnal belajar (learning journal).

Penutup Klarifikasi / kesimpulan peserta didik dibantu oleh guru

menyimpulkan materi tentang lagu.

5 Menit

Peserta didik melakukan refleksi tentang materi yang

telahdipelorehselamapelaksanaan pembelajaran. Guru

menyampaikanrencanapembelajaranuntukpertemuanberikutnya.

Mengucapkan salam

H. ALAT/ BAHAN/ SUMBER BELAJAR:

1. Media : VCD/ DVD/ CD dan Power Point Presentation

2. Alat : Laptop, LCD, dan Speaker Active

3. Sumber belajar :www.youtube.com

4. Silabus 2013

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