Figurative Language on Tangis Dilo suku Alas Wedding Ceremony: A Semantics Analysis

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%)