摘要：This research analyzes twenty two lyrics which are written by male and female songwriters based on Robert Sylvester Kelly’s song. I Believe I Can Fly, I Wish, Same Girl, Honey, Imma Flirt, Bad Man, Up And Outta Here, When A Woman's Fed Up, You Remind Me Of Something, I Can't Sleep Baby, I'm Your Angel compared with Someday, I Don't Wanna Cry, You Need Me, Alone in Love, All in Your Mind, Hero, Dream Lover, When I Saw You, I Am Free, Butterfly, My All, Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey, as the source data. The problem of this research is whether there are any similarities and differences between Robert Sylvester Kelly and Mariah Carey in using figure of speech, simile, metaphor, personification and colloquialism in their songs? And what do the functions figure of speech in their songs? The aim of this research is to describe the similarities and the differences figure of speech, simile, metaphor, personification and colloquialism and find the functions figures of speech in their songs. In this research uses a qualitative method. The data consist of similarities and differences from both of the American songwriter by R. Kelly and Mariah Carey in using style in their songs, with the percentages 35 % of similarities and 65% of differences. Based on the data that are found in this research, the writer found that Robert Sylvester Kelly’s songs used figures of speech more often than Mariah Carey’s songs, and Mariah Carey’s songs more often used hyperbole than Robert Sylvester Kelly’s songs and generally, Mariah Carey’s songs tend to be more obedient with the rules, and more polite in using vocabularies than Robert Sylvester Kelly’s songs
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