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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study deals with stylistics devices in songs, especially the songs in
Psalm, whose forms are the same with poetry. The writer chooses this topic because
she realizes that it will be interesting to analyze a literary work through linguistic
study. The writer chooses songs in Psalm since the she considers those songs as a
piece of great literature in this world. They can express human feeling through their
theme. By conducting this research, the writer wants to know what stylistic devices
and syntactic deviation that occur in the songs of Psalm. Besides, the writer is also
curious to know what lexical items which are used by Psalmist in creating the songs.
Finally, through this research, the writer wants to know the tone and theme in the
selected articles of Psalm.
This study is analyzed by using some theories. First of all is stylistic theory
because the writer intends to find out the stylistics devices that are used in Psalm. In
addition, since the writer analyses the syntactic deviation and lexical selection, she
uses the theory of diction and syntax. Due to the fact that this study is basically about
Christianity, the writer needs a theory to analyze the cultural and historical
background of Psalm. Therefore the theories of Pragmatics and Discourse are
needed.
The writer uses a qualitative approach in doing this research, because the data
consists of words instead of numbers.
Finally, the writer finds out that figures of speech and lexical selections are
highly selected by the Psalmists to convey the tone and the theme effectively. The
theme itself can reflect the real life of the people nowadays.
Key words:
Psalm, Stylistics approach, Stylistics devices, Syntactic deviations, Tone and
Theme