The Figurative Language In Twilight Movie Script

ABSTRACT The present study entitled The Figurative Language in “Twilight” movie script is concerned with the analysis of the figurative language that this movie script contains and the meaning contained therein. The topic about figurative language is interesting because it gives people a nice sense of imagination when they are reading the source or something which contains figurative language. The aims of this study are to identify and analyze the types of figurative language used in “Twilight” movie script and the meaning conveyed. The data used in this study were collected through documentary method. The method consists of three steps. The first step was downloading the movie script from the internet. Then the movie script was read repeatedly and intensively. The last step was noting down the figurative language. This study used two theories; they are the theory of figurative language and theory of meaning. The theory of figurative language is adopted the theory of K. L. Knickerbocker and H. Willard Reninger (1963). The second theory is adopted the Theory of Meaning by Geoffrey Leech (1974) to support the analysis. The result of this study shows that there are eight types of figurative language found, they are simile, personification, metonymy, hyperbole, irony, paradox, dead metaphor and allusion. There are four types of meaning found; they are connotative meaning, affective meaning, reflective meaning and collocative meaning. Keywords: Figurative Language, Meaning, Movie Script, Twilight.