THE STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES IN THE CREATION OF HUMOR IN A. BRADLEY'S NOVEL "SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE"

The article is focused upon the analysis of stylistic means, devices by which Alan Bradley achieves the comic effect in the novel “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”. In recent decades, the problem of creation of comic and linguistic means of its expression in works of fiction has been the object of attention of many researchers. However, until now, the linguistic and stylistic devices used by the authors of humorous texts to create a comic effect and express an individual worldview position have not been sufficiently studied, since the researchers focused mainly on the literary aspect, the peculiarities of the comic worldview, the structural and compositional organization of humorous works. Semantics and stylistics remain outside the attention of linguists. As a result, the detailed consideration of linguistic means of expression, used by Alan Bradley in the novel “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” to create a humorous effect, is in the scope of this article. The main stylistic devices are represented by simile, hyperbole, metaphor and suspense.