AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SONGS LYRIC “ONE” ALBUM BY MAHER ZAIN

ABSTRACT The aims of this study was to know types of figurative languages in the song lyric “One” album by Maher Zain based on the theory of Knickerbocker and Renniger, to know the most dominant figurative language which is used in the song, and to know the contextual meaning of the figurative language in the song lyric "one" by Maher Zain. This study used descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The instruments of this research were documentation and the researcher itself. This research applied a documentary to carries out data collection. In analyzing the data, the concept by Miles and Huberman has used: data reduction, data display and conclusion. The result of the research showed that the dominant type of figurative language in songs lyric is symbol. In this study, the writer found 23 data. There are 7 data of personification, 4 data of hyperbole, 2 data of paradox, and 9 data of symbol. The meaning of any symbol whether an object, an action, or a gesture, is controlled by its context. A symbol can be defined simply as any object or action that means more than itself. Keywords: Figurative language, One, Maher Zain,, Descriptive Qualitativ