This study aims to reveal the writing style in the novel The Curse of the King by Peter Lerangis, especially in its figurative speech namely metaphor and simile. The classification of metaphors analyzed uses Newmark's classification and the simile classification used in this study is the classification described by Fromilhague. A qualitative method was used to answer the problem of the study. The research showed that there were thirteen metaphors and fifty-two similes. The metaphor compositions found were one Dead Metaphor, two Recent Metaphors, Three Stock metaphors, seven Original Metaphors, and no Cliche Metaphors. The similes found were five Explicit Similes and forty-seven Implicit Similes. Metaphors and similes in the novel use many popular references such as the words of Donald Trump, party guest, Children of the Corn, Velcro, Ninja, props in a movie, Soprano, Pizza, Flashmob, a dancer on steroids, Looney Tunes, and ET. The combination of past history with a writing style that uses popular figures of speech becomes an interesting mix that makes the novel gain many fans in the world. The novelty of this type of research is still very broad, especially in research on new words in historical fiction such as in the work of Peter Lerangis.

This research only focuses on the problem of identifying the theory of mise-en scenes found in the Divergent movie and using the mise-en scene to explore the meaning of each scene in the movie. This study also aims to identify the theory of the mise-en scene that is seen and describe the elements of mise-en-scene to explore the meaning implicit in the Divergent movie. Divergent movies were analyzed using a data approach. The analysis was completed by referring to one object that is, analysis based on the theory of mise-en scene using elements contained in it. This research uses data collection techniques. This study uses two data sources. The first is Veronica Roth's Divergent movie as the main source. The second data source is literature review by searching, collecting, reading, and studying reference books, articles, or writings that have a relationship with this research. Based on this research, the researchers concluded that the Divergent movie contains elements of the mise-en scene of each scene in the film including, setting and property, costume, lighting, acting.

Indonesia is a country that has many regional languages. The diversity of regional languages is a characteristic of Indonesia. One of them is the Javanese language which is used by the Javanese people and has a variety of dialects. Therefore, the writer is interested in conducting research on the characteristics of the Javanese dialect of Blora in accordance with sociolinguistic studies that examines the relationship between language and its speaking community. This is similar to the writer aim to analysis the differences between Blora, Temanggung and Mojokerto dialect. The writer also analyzes the use of Javanese speech level used by the people of Blora. This is because there are still many people who do not know the geographical location of Blora City. In this study, the writer uses a qualitative descriptive method and the data collection methods needed to analysis the data are simak method and cakap method. The analysis results showed that there are characteristics of the Blora dialect and there are differences between Blora, Temanggung and Mojokerto dialect. It can be concluded that the variations of the three dialects have different morphology, phonology, lexical and semantics. This is due to the diversity of dialect differences from the results of regional observations.

In this article, the topic is about the impact from a broken family towards the children behaviour base on the novel RAINBIRDS. The goal of this research is to analyze it under the title “An Analysis on The Impact of A Broken Family Towards The Children’s Behaviour as Seen in Novel: Rainbirds”. In the analysis, there are two methods of research; firstly, library research then taking opinion from experts to support the idea. To get the data, structural approach is used because the discussion is about the structure of story such as character and characterization. It uses the theory of B.F Skinner about behaviorism and Sigmund Freud about Id, Ego and Superego to analyze deeply about the behaviour of the characters and find out about their personality that leads to their actions. From the discussion, based on the psychology theory mentioned, Ren Ishida is mostly superego type of person because he often does something good although he was id-driven caused from his childhood experience in his family. Rio Nakajima on the other hand, is mostly id-driven, she tends to do action as she please without realizing the impact of her action towards herself. Each character has their struggle. Each character is battling with their problem and reacts in a different ways. This story is very interesting because through the story we can learn more about the struggle children will endure if they have a broken family and how that problem impacts their life.

Permasalahan pembelajaran bahasa Inggris di era revolusi industri 4.0 seperti sekarang terletak pada instruksi guru yang tidak jelas, media yang terbatas, input siswa yang masih rendah, dan ketidaktertarikan siswa terhadap mata pelajaran. Nilai-nilai karakter dan lokal generasi muda juga dianggap mulai terkikis dikarenakan perkembangan teknologi yang semakin pesat. Selanjutnya, cerita naratif lokal daerah juga kalah masif dibandingkan cerita naratif dari luar negeri. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kompetensi bahasa Inggris siswa melalui teks naratif lokal dengan introdusir media pembelajaran berbasis Android sebagai wujud implementasi PPK (Penguatan Pendidikan Karakter). Analisis yang digunakan dalam riset ini adalah kualitatif yang diasosiasikan dengan berbagai metode, perspektif, dan pendekatan seperti metode Research & Development (R&D). Tahapan penelitian yang dilakukan meliputi pengumpulan data, pendesainan data, pengembangan media pembelajaran berbasis Android, validasi ahli, dan uji coba produk. Hasil kuesioner dan wawancara dari pengumpulan data hingga uji coba produk menunjukkan bahwa lebih dari 74% responden menyetujui dan terpuaskan dengan pengembangan media pembelajaran bahasa Inggris dengan contoh naratif lokal berbasis Android. Media pembelajaran tersebut digunakan untuk meningkatan kompetensi bahasa Inggris pada peserta didik, pengimplementasian PPK, dan pelestarian nilai lokal yang sarat akan pendidikan moral.