Figurative language in the 'Freedom Writers' movie as authentic materials for teaching English at high School

In Phase F of English listening and speaking elements, figurative language can be a strategy for students to express their opinions. One of the movies that has the potential to provide authentic and relevant figurative language material to students' lives is the Freedom Writers movie. This study aims to identify the types of figurative language used in the dialogues of the Freedom Writers movie and determine the potential use as English authentic materials for teaching figurative language in high school grade 11. The theory of figurative sentences used to classify each data type is the theory of Kennedy and Gioia (1995). This study uses a qualitative approach with a content analysis method to explore the meaning of the movie's dialogue. The data was taken from the Freedom Writers (2007) movie script and reinforced by watching the movie, then collected using table analysis. The results showed that there are 34 figurative sentences consisting of 7 types of figurative language, namely simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, and paradox, with metaphor as the most dominant type. Of these, 11 sentences from 5 types of figurative language have the potential to be used as authentic materials to teach expression to express opinions on a wide range of purposes, and teaching students strategies for expressing opinions about motivation and appreciation through figurative sentences in high school grade 11. These findings indicate that the figurative sentence in the Freedom Writers movie can be used as authentic material to achieve the learning objectives of Phase F and enrich students' learning experiences in terms of expressing their opinions for various purposes.