STYLISTIC ANALYSIS IN IWAN FALS’ AND EBIET G ADE’S SONG LYRICS

This thesis deals with the stylistic analysis used in Iwan Fals’ and Ebiet Ade’s song lyrics. The objectives of this study are to describe types of figures of speech found in the Iwan Fals’ and Ebiet G Ade’s song lyrics, to describe the interpretation of Iwan Fals’ and Ebiet G Ade’s song lyrics and to elaborate the reason why they use it. A qualitative descriptive research was applied. The data source were taken from the album of Iwan Fals and Ebiet G Ade’s album from 1982 to 1990. There are 11 album of Iwan Fals and 6 album of Ebiet G Ade.Iwan Fals’ album are choosen randomly as well as Ebiet G Ade’s album.To take the album is used percentage namely 30 percent of Iwan Fals’ album and Ebiet G Ade’s album. There are 3 album of Iwan Fals and 2 album of Ebiet G ade that will be the source of data. The songs that characterized the most representative are taken respectively from the album collection. The researcher takes 30 percent of it as the data namely 8 song lyrics of Iwan Fals and 6 song lyrics of Ebiet Ade. Documentary technique is applied in collecting the data. The instrument for collecting the data is documentary sheet. The data were analyzed by using Mile and Huberman’s data analysis. The findings show that there are 10 types of figures of speech are found in the Iwan Fals song lyrics namely: personification, apostrophe, simile, metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, paradox, allegory, and overstatement/hyperbole and 8 types of figures of speech are found in Ebiet G Ade’s song lyrics namely: personification, apostrophe, metaphor, symbol, paradox, allegory, overstatement/hyperbole and understatement. It is found that Iwan Fals and Ebiet G Ade wrote song lyrics as the medium to convey message and advice. The reasons of using Figures of Speech in song Lyrics are (1) style as personality/individuality, (2) Style as deviation from the norm, (3) Style as situation or relationship between message and medium.