ANTONYMS AS A CULTURAL FACTOR IN ARTISTIC TEXTS INVOLVING SIMILE

Abstract

This article presents and discusses similes with a stylistic function in the artistic text and their function in the text, similes expressed through antonyms. Simile is a universal phenomenon, it is characteristic of all languages. The essence of this stylistic device is revealed by its name. Usually, two concepts related to different classes of phenomena are compared in some way. Similes in the artistic text serve to more clearly describe the integrity of the writer's artistic worldview, the appearance of the characters, reveal their inner world, describe nature, one or another of its phenomena, and convey the main idea of the work to the reader.