FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON BAD BOYS FOR LIFE MOVIE: A SEMANTIC STUDY

Abstract

The study deals with semantic analysis on “Bad Boys For Life” movie. People like to watch movie especially the one which stared by the famous actor. “Bad Boys For Life” movie is a movie that stared by Will Smith, a famous American actor which contains beautiful words. Thus, this qualitative research is generated to identify and analyzed the types and meaning of figurative language used in “Bad Boys For Life” movie based on Miles & Huberman (1994) theory. There were 45 sentences contain 11 from category style rhetorical and comparisons or similarities types of figurative language found on “Bad Boys For Life” movie, they are : 12 epithet, 7 simile, 6 onomatopoeia, 5 metaphor, 4 hyperbole, 3 metonymy, 3 allegory, 2 irony, 1 personification, 1 synecdoche, 1 allusion. The figurative language used in this movie to describe something which understandable, comparable, imaginable, unpredictable, funny and serious.