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IMAGERY AND AFFECTIVE MEANING ANALYSIS OF NIALL HORAN'S SONG LYRICS IN
ABSTRAKSI :
The topic of this research is types of imagery and affective meaning analysis in Niall Horan song lyrics from "The Show" album. The purposes of this research are to examine various types of imagery and the affective meaning behind the imagery in song lyrics. The qualitative descriptive method was applied in this research. The source data for this research is song lyrics from Niall Horan's third studio album, The Show. Heaven, If You Leave Me, Meltdown, Never Grow Up, The Show, You Could Start a Cult, Save My Life, On a Night Like Tonight, Science, and Must Be Love are among the tracks on the album. The researcher analysed imagery using the theory from Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson in Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. It is found that there are 105 data of imagery found by the researcher, namely 39 data of visual imagery, 6 data of auditory imagery, 19 data of kinaesthetic imagery, 5 data of tactile imagery, 36 data of organic imagery, 0 data of olfactory imagery, and 0 data of gustatory imagery. In affective meaning, it is found the result namely 56 positive types and 49 negative types which are found in the imagery from song lyrics of The Show album by Niall Horan based on Leech's theory of meaning. Keywords: Types of Imagery, Affective Meaning, Song Lyrics.