Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
Articles

An Analysis of Simile in War Room Movie

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  • Yosua Timotius Natanael,
  • Gina Indriani,
  • Muhammad Ridho Fajar Nugraha,
  • Nurma Dhona Handayani
Yosua Timotius Natanael
Universitas Putera Batam
Gina Indriani
Universitas Putera Batam
Muhammad Ridho Fajar Nugraha
Universitas Putera Batam
Nurma Dhona Handayani
Universitas Putera Batam

Published 2022-10-10

Keywords

  • simile,
  • War Room,
  • type,
  • narrow-scope,
  • wider-scope

How to Cite

Natanael, Y. T., Indriani, G., Nugraha, M. R. F., & Handayani, N. D. (2022). An Analysis of Simile in War Room Movie. INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa, 9(2), 289–296. Retrieved from https://e-journal.unimudasorong.ac.id/index.php/interactionjournal/article/view/2448

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze simile and its type in the movie “War Room” (2015) directed by Alex Kendrick. Similes are employed in a number of ways and serve a range of purposes, including movie. Therefore, this study applied qualitative research as the design and focused on analyzing simile, which is part of semantics study. A simile is a clear comparison, and it frequently uses comparative terms like or as. The type of similes is categorized by Dancygier & Sweetser (2014) into narrow-scope and wider-scope similes. As the result of the research, there were 20 similes found in the movie, such as 4 similes using “as” and 16 similes using ‘like’ as the comparison word. Moreover, there were 11 narrow-scope similes and 9 wider-scope similes apparent in the movie’s narration and conversation.

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