COLOR METAPHOR IN THE NOVEL “ZULEIKHA OPENS HER EYES” BY GUZEL YAKHINA

Abstract

The article is dedicated to an analysis of the color metaphor from the point of view of semantics in a literary text “Zuleikha opens her eyes”, in which the author tries to identify features of the cognitive metaphor, taking into account the frequency of use of words. Based on the conducted research, it is proved that the color metaphor is one of the important visual and expressive means that are often used by authors in literary works, which allows you to more clearly reveal the emotional appearance and inner world of the hero, his thoughts, attitude to life. It is indicated that the color metaphor is not only a means of lexical expressiveness, but also a way of constructing a color palette. The metaphor is characterized by semantic duality and secondary lexical meanings of the word, therefore it is one of the main ways to change the meaning of color names.