Figurative Language in Ebiet G Ade Song
Figurative Language in Ebiet G Ade Song
Figurative Language in Ebiet G Ade Song
INTRODUCTION
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conventionally says is not always the same as what he intends to express. A
composer usually put the meaning implicitly. In the attempt to understand the
meaning of what composer means in the song, a further knowledge is needed. The
song usually consists of figurative language. The figurative language is kind of
language that the speaker says less than what he means. Figurative language is
commonly applied in literary works. One of the literary works is song. Hatch
(1995) states that, traditionally, figurative language has been described in terms of
categories: simile, metaphor, allusion, personification, and so forth.
This study focused on figurative languages which are used mainly in the
song lyric of Ebiet G Ade’s songs. In this study, the researcher take three sample
of Ebiet G Ade songs, they are entitled “Berita Kepada Kawan”, “Isyu”, and
“Menjaring Matahari”. These song are the familiar song of Indonesian people
especially in era years of 1990. These songs are famous by it’s lyric that full of
figurative language. Until now, the song of Ebiet G Ade still popular in Indonesia
people society because the liryc of the songs are have a really depper meaning for
life.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
1. Figurative language
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Figures of speech are imaginative tools in both literature and ordinary
communications used for explaining speech beyond its usual usage. The Collins
English Dictionary (2006) in Elaheh (2010:19) defines figure of speech as "an
expression such as a simile, in which words do not have their literal meaning, but
are categorized as multi-word expressions that act in the text as units" (Alhasnawi,
2007: 3).
2. Song
3. Lyric
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CHAPTER III
1. Data
The data of this study are the Ebiet G Ade’s songs that contain the
figurative language. The data focus on types of figurative language in the songs.
In this study, the researcher take three samples of Ebiet G Ade’s songs, they are
entitled “Berita Kepada Kawan”, “Isyu”, and “Menjaring Matahari” These song
are the familiar song of Indonesian people especially in era years of 1990. These
songs are famous by it’s lyric that full of figurative language. There are 17
figurative meaning in Ebiet G Ade’s song; 8 figurative meaning in “Berita Kepada
Kawan” song, 5 figurative meaning in “Isyu” song, and 4 figurative meaning in
“Menjaring Matahari” song.
1. Hyperbole
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(Swallowed by this disaster).
2 Isyu - Melilitkan isu di leherku Hyperbole
(Wraping issues in my neck).
3 Menjaring - Roda zaman menggilas kita, Hyperbole
Matahari terseret, tertatih-tatih (The
wheel of the age is crush us,
dragged and hobbled).
- ‘My body shaken and slammed by street stones’, hyperbole helps to make
point the body was so pained of getting shaken and the slammed by street
stones. Like Dennis said it’s exaggeration, the body shaken and slammed
by thestones. Actually it means that someone who getting the continous
trouble of his journey. The trouble is represent by the street stone.
- ‘Swallowed by this disaster’ means that disaster swallow something.
Hyperbole make the point that something or someone/something really
swallowed by the disaster, but actually that is not as bad as swallowed by
disaster, it means that the death that caused by the disaster.
- ‘Wraping issues in my neck’ actually this is not something that wraping in
the neck. Wraping issues in my neck here means accused me do something
that I don’t
- ‘The wheel of the age is crush us, dragged and hobbled’ it means that the
wheel of the age is not actually crush us, dragged and hobbled. Hyperbole
here helps to make point of the age which still go on force the human to
live and adapt in.
2. Idiom
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baik yang menyimpang dari tata bahasa maupun tidak karena mempunyai makna
yang tidak dapat dijabarkan dari makna unsur-unsurnya.”
- Heart is thrilled to tread the dry grasses, the heart actually cannot tread
the grasses because it doesn’t walking, it just represent the felling in
through the the dry grasses which the dry grasses means the condition in
the land that crushed by the disaster.
- Flicking the hot atmosphere, means spreading the bad issues so that the
situation will full of conflict.
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- The voice of my soul is the truth, idom make the point of my soul is voices
even actually doesn’t. The voice of my soul is the truth here means that
someone try to emphasize that he’s a good man.
- Just try to open the record in the sky, up there I keep the truth. There is no
record in the sky so that we can keep the truth there. Sentence here have a
idiom meaning. As we know, nobody lives in the sky and nobody know
everything exist there but the truth is keeping there. It means that nobody
know what the kindness and the truth someone ever did in the life, just
God who know it.
- Life is really hunted, pace with the time. This sentence is the continue of
the hyperbole sentence is ‘The wheel of the age is crush us’ . the idiom
meaning of this sentence is life must be keep giong on by the time unless
the wheel of age will crush us or the other word life will keep stay there
while the age is keep going on.
- The thick black march covering the sun. Actually there is no thick black
that covering the sun, it’s imposible in the fact and also in language
regular. The idiom here make a point of the thick black as something that
block the sun light. It can be reffered to the life that full of problem ang
can’t find way out.
3. Simile
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1 Berita Kepada - Perjalanan ini seperti Simile
Kawan jadi saksi (This trip is
like the witnes).
“This trip is like the witnes of crying of a little shepperd.” The lyrics are
included into simile because it expressed by the connector and the word “like”.
The simile meaning in this sentence compare the trip and the witness. Which is
the trip here be compared like a witness of crying of a little shepperd.
4. Personification
Here is the personification the exist in the Ebit G Ade’s songs liryc:
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- Alam mulai enggan Personification
bersahabat dengan kita
(The nature be reluctant
to friendly with us).
- Coba kita bertanya pada Personification
rumput yang bergoyang
(Let us try to ask to the
swaying grasses).
- Arriving to the sea, I tell everything to the coral, waves, and the sun. The
abstract notions here is the coral, waves and the sun. The personification
make a point they are, the abstract notions like human who can be invited
to talk.
- The nature be reluctant to friendly with us. The personification make the
point of the nature is human who can life and friendly with the other
person. The exactly meaning of this sentence is the natural disaster that
begin occur continuously so that taking the victim. So that’s why it can be
said the nature be reluctant to friendly with us.
- Let us try to ask to the swaying grasses. The inanimate object of this
personification is the grasses. It make a point that the grasses can be asked
as like human being.
5. Symbolic
Symbol is a thing that stands for something else more abstract. In Merriam
Webster‘s Encyclopedia of Literature (1995: 1085) symbolic is defined as
something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship,
association, convention, or accidental resemblance: especially, a visible sign of
something invisible. According to Kennedy (1983), symbol is sign of some kind (a
word or thing) that suggest something outside and beyond itself.
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Song Title Figurative Language Types of Figurative
Language
1 Menjaring - Kabut, sengajakah engkau Symbolic
Matahari mewakili pikiranku (Fog,
do you really meant to
represent my mind?).
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CHAPTER IV
1. Ethics
2. Aesthetics
3. Social
The significance of this finding for social is we can learn how to tell or
advice someone by not using hurting words. Or we can convey our willing by
denote some meaning in figurative language, in a song for example. Using the
figurative languge is softer than when we say it directly. So, it can be create the
good perception in society.
4. Cultural
The significance of this finding for the cultural is to keep the cultural
heritage in form of the paraphrases from the great-grandparents which can be
guideness behaviour in life.
5. Economi
The significance of this finding for the economi is denote the economic
condition, for example big pegs than poles
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION
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