STYLISTIC, SEMANTIC AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF ZOOMETAPHOR IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES (BASED ON THE WORKS OF J. GALSWORTHY)

Abstract

The article analyses the mechanism of formation and functioning of zoometaphor and zoocomparison and presents an inventory of building zoometaphors by using zoonym words for figurative external and internal characteristics of people. The work highlights in a detailed way different points of view on the phenomenon of metaphor, analyzes the classifications of metaphors, which are based on logical-objective, lexical-grammatical features and stylistic functions of usual and occasional zoometaphors on the illustrative material of J. Galsworthy’s work, with their stylistic and pragmatic effect being traced. The specifics of animalistic metaphor as a writing tool in assessing the external features of characters and expressing their inner social essence lies in implying of an additional connotation that the writer puts into the creation of images and that makes the usual metaphor sound individual.