Skripsi
Ana Analysis of Repetition Used in Shaw Mendes' Selected Song Lyrics
ABSTRACT
Writers use repetitions in literary works, especially poetry and song lyrics for some purposes. Shawn Mendes uses these repetitions are to achieve aesthetic effect and value for those literary works. This study aims to describe the types of repetitions in Shawn Mendes’ selected song lyrics to find their functions in the selected song lyrics that the researcher choses for this study. This study employed qualitative design with stylistic approach which aims to the types and functions of repetitions in Shawn Mendes’ song lyrics. The result of this study shows that all nine types of repetitions found in this study. There are forty-six alliterations, twenty-six assonances, twenty-one consonances, five refrains, four feminine rhymes, five masculine rhymes, two internal rhymes, eighteen end rhymes, and five approximate rhymes. And besides that, it is possible to have more than one types of repetitions and functions in one data. The most dominant repetition in this study is alliteration. After categorizing and interpreting the data, the researcher found three out of four function of repetition found such as; to reinforce meaning, to emphasize certain words, and to link up or contrast words. Overall, these function lead to emphasize certain words. And in additional based on the result mention above, the researcher can conclude that Shawn Mendes has narrative style of writing because of the way he wrote his lyrics that has repetition of persuasive lines that he often emphasize in his song lyrics.
Keywords: stylistics, repetition, song lyric
1514025052 | 011.75 | REFERENSI FIB | Tersedia |
Tidak tersedia versi lain