eScience Humanity Journal
Vol 5 No 1 (2024): eScience Humanity Journal Volume 5 Number 1 November 2024

The Investigation of Figurative Language in “The Count of Monte Cristo” Movie

Ramadhan, Muhammad Rayhan (Unknown)
Ambalegin, Ambalegin (Unknown)



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Publish Date
30 Nov 2024

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the use of figurative language in “The Count of Monte Cristo” movie. In this research, qualitative descriptive used as the research method. The researchers examined the script from “The Count of Monte Cristo” movie as the data source. In collecting the data, the method was observation and the technique was non-participant. Meanwhile, in analyzing the data, the method was identification and the technique was matching to the theory. The utterances from the transcript of the movie which were taken as the data were analyzed narratively. The researchers used the theory of (Abrams & Harpham, 2013) to discover the use of figurative language. The researchers discovered 22 utterances from the movie’s script that show the use of figurative language. There were simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification.

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Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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eScience Humanity Journal is an electronic and printed journal published by Asosiasi Ide Bahasa KEPRI. This journal was founded on November 7, 2020 through the Decree of the Chairman of the Association Number : 008/SK-RJeSCi/IdeBahasa/XI/2020. Thescope of this journal is to published the article ...