Abstract:
This study deal with the analysis figurative Language on Tangis Dilo Suku
Alas Wedding Ceremony: A Semantics Analysis. The objectives of the study
were to find out the types of figurative Language on Tangis Dilo Suku Alas
Wedding Ceremony: A Semantics Analysis, to find out how is the figurative
language of semantics used by speakers on the Tangis Dilo wedding ceremony
and to find out why the figurative language of semantics appears in Tangis Dilo
wedding ceremony. The data in this research was taken from Tangis Dilo
lyrics. The source of these research three Tangis Dilo. Descriptive qualitative
method was applied to analyze the data. The data of this research derived from
the lyrics of Tangis Dilo by pakar tangis dilo atau tradional figure hamidah
S.Pd and downloading from internet. The finding shows that there were 62
figurative Language on Tangis Dilo. The total number and percentages of
figurative Language in each type of figurative Language on Tangis Dilo There
were seven types of figurative Language found on Tangis Dilo, there were
personification 19 (19,55%), simile 14, metaphor 6 (6.50%), hyperbole
11(11,34%), litotes 5 (5,1%), metonymy 3 (3,1%), and Irony 4 (4,11%) .The
types of figurative Language most dominantly used on Tangis Dilo there were
personafication 19 ( 19,55%)
