LINGUOPOETIC AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF CLIMAX AND ANTICLIMAX STYLISTIC FIGURES IN THE ARTISTIC TEXT
Abstract
This article analyzes the theoretical foundations of the stylistic figures of climax and anticlimax, which play an important role in the science of stylistics, and their linguopoetic properties in the literary text. In the course of the research, the linguistic essence of the gradation category, its inextricable connection with climax, and its communicative and aesthetic functions in literary speech were studied. Also, the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic properties of climax and anticlimax figures were analyzed based on examples from English and Uzbek literature. The results of the research show that climax serves as an important stylistic device that creates a dramatic culmination in a literary text, while anticlimax creates an ironic or satirical effect by ending the gradational intensification with an unexpected decrease. These stylistic figures play an important role in enhancing the aesthetic and communicative effect of literary speech.
Keywords
stylistics, gradation, climax, anticlimax, linguopoetics, stylistic figure, semantic intensity, artistic speech.
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