Abstract name : annisa aprilya student no : 1506102020041 study program : english education department title : an analysis of personification used in michael jackson’s thriller and invincible albums keywords: literature, personification, types of personification, song lyrics this research is literature study which aims to figure out the types of personification used in michael jackson’s thriller and invincible albums. the sources of data were 19 songs taken from thriller and invincible albums by michael jackson and the lyrics of the songs. the research design used in this study was a descriptive qualitative research with documentation analysis as the technique of data collection. the result showed that there were 65 personification expressions found in the albums. those 65 personifications were categorized into four types of personification as proposed by dorst et al. (2011) namely: conventionalized personification (33 expressions), novel personification (20