A Study of Figurative Language in Taylor Swift’s Evermore Album

Abstract

This research focuses to find and analyze the type of figurative language and the meaning found in the song lyrics in Evermore Album by Taylor Swift. The researcher uses qualitative method for conduct data from song lyrics. The researcher use Leech (1969) theory to find types of figurative language and the theory types of meaning by Leech (1981). The result of this research, the researcher found that five types of figurative language, there are Personifications, Similes, Metaphors, Hyperboles, and Irony and also find two types of meaning, there are the type of meaning are Connotative Meaning and Affective Meaning.