Metaphor in the System of Stylistic Devices of the Language

Abstract

Determining the place of metaphor in the system of figurative means of language, it is necessary to note that metaphor is freer than other means of expression. Metaphor intersects with comparison, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, hyperbole, irony, grotesque, etc. The rationale for identifying transference and metaphorical simile stems largely from the complexity and structural ambiguity of the meaning expressed by them. The transfer of signs from one object to another allows us to speak only of a general tendency in their identification and interpretation. As a rule, it is impossible to establish unambiguously which nuances of metaphorical meaning are actualized in one case or another, which does not give us sufficient reasons to oppose one process to another.