Tell Journal, Volume 2, Number 1, April 2014 ISSN : 2338-8927 15 ANALYSIS FIGURE OF SPEECH IN ADELE’S SONGS Nungki Lupita Prasetia, Masulah, Waode Hamsia English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University at Surabaya, masrurnungky@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Language is an important means of communication to express our idea, emotion and feeling. Literature is creative and imaginative work of art spoken and written. Lyrics and poems, which are examples of literature, can express our feeling. Song is an imaginative awareness of experiences expressed through meaning, sound and rhythmic language choice so as to evoke an emotional response.There are many western musicians who use figure of speech in the songs. The researchers interested in Adele songs. Because her songs contain figure of speech and the researcher believes that these figure not yet well understood by the listeners. Her songs always contain about her experience.From this research, it is found in the songs that the kinds of figure of speech are personification, Metaphor and Synecdoche. The meaning in the figure of speech that is different from one song to another. Finally the researcher suggest the readers or other research want to conduct some researches that can analyze other types and aspect of figure of speech in the lyrics of songs composed or created by other singers. Keywords : Figure of Speech, meaning Language is an important media in the information used by humans. That is what makes the language as part of life in the community. Language is a matter that an important role in human survival. Through language, the information conveyed to others. Therefore we need a styling inside in order to create an aesthetic in the language itself. The understanding will be reached if the understanding of the language used to convey the information has been experiencing the diversity. There are same features that are different in one language to another. That is like English feature different from indonesian feature. Chaer (2007:33) states that are (1) language is system, (2) language is a sign, (3) language is a sound, (4) language is arbitrary feature, (5)language is meaning, (6) language is conventional, (7) language is unique, (8)language is universal, (9) language is productive, (10) language is variable, (11) language is dynamic, (12) language is a tool of society interaction, and (13) language is identity of person. Wheeler (2010) according state that Language is a particular system of signs used by members of a group communicated with each other. These signs can be verbal sounds, language gesture or written markings like letters. Yet, as material literature, languge is not simply the same like stone, broze or picture because languages is creativity its own. A language is considered to be a system of communicating with other people using sound, symbol and words in expressing a meaning, idea or thought. This language can be used in many forms, primarily through oral and written communications as well as using expressions through body language. While written, it is given and received through the form of poetry, novel, song, lettr, etc. The researcher focuses on literature that is specifically the lyrics songs which can categorize like poem. Song is a poem which sounded by rhythm. Accordingly, a song contains language exposition that uses composer to express CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Jurnal Online Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya