An Analysis of Figurative Language in Maher Zain’s Song Lyrics

The purposes of this study are to identify the types of figurative language, to interpret the meaning, and to find out the reason behind the use of figurative language in the selected song lyrics by Maher Zain. Eleven Selected song from three albums by Maher Zain used as the objects for data source in this study. The qualitative method used in this study with descriptive analysis approach so that the research questions answered through analytical description. The figurative languages analysed by using Leech theory (1981). The results of this research show that the seven types of figurative language found in this study, they are simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, metonymy, irony and litotes. Based on the result, it can be concluded that the most frequent type of figurative language used in the song lyrics by Maher Zain is hyperbole. This song lyric had many figurative languages. It means this song lyric tried to use figurative language to express the feeling or idea imaginatively.