FIGURES OF SPEECH IN WESTLIFE’S SELECTED SONGS

This study deals with the figures of speech in the lyrics of Westlifes Selected Songs. The objectives of the study are to describe the types of figures of speech which are used in Westlifes Selected Songs, to derive the figures of speech used Westlifes Selected Songs, to reason the figures of speech as found in Westlifes Selected Songs . The research was conducted by descriptive qualitative. The data are the lyrics of Westlifes Selected Songs, the data were collected from 10 songs that has figures of speech. This data were analyzed by identifying and classifying the figures of speech displaying the result in a table. Then these figures of spech are described in details. The analysis found that there are eight types of figures of speech which used; they are Simile 27,71%, Metaphor 21,70 %, Personification 1,20 %,Synecdoche 1,20 %, Metonymy 7,23 % , Symbol 4, 81 %, Hyperbole 33,75 % and Paradox 2,40 %.The most frequent type of figures of speech used in the lyrics of Westlifes Selected Songs is Hyperbole.