SIMILE AND PERSONIFICATION IN LOVER ALBUM BY TAYLOR SWIFT (A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE)

SIMILE AND PERSONIFICATION IN LOVER ALBUM BY TAYLOR SWIFT (A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE)

• By Sahel, Maharani;
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The objective of the research is to find simile and personification based on semantic perspective in the album Lover by Taylor Swift. This research focus on ten selected songs from the album Lover by Taylor Swift, the song entitled Cruel Summer, The Man, Paper Rings, Cornelia Street, Death by a Thousand Cuts, London Boy, You Need to Calm Down, Afterglow, Me! and Daylight. This research uses descriptive qualitative to analyze Simile and Personification and the meaning in the song lyrics, researcher also listen to the music repeatedly while examine the lyrics. The goal of this research is to find simile, personification, and to find how many similes and personifications are in the Lover album by Taylor Swift. The researcher found twenty-nine data from the selected songs, seventeen similes and twelve personifications.

• Katakunci Simile, Personification, Song Lyrics
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• Penerbit Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika, Jakarta DKI Jakarta

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