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Аннотация

The article is about Stylistic device of metaphor and its role in creating imagery, to be specific creating visual imagery in literary texts. The extracts taken from the novel “A Dance with Dragons” by George R. R. Martin are analyzed from stylistic point of view. Key words: metaphor, visual imagery, spatial metaphors, stylistic metaphors. Metaphor is a stylistic device based on the principle of identification of two objects. The term “metaphor” means transference of some quality from one object to another. Metaphor is investigated as one of the means of changing means of words in traditional Linguistics. In stylistics branch of Linguistics, it is recognized as a form of word decoration and an expression of thought. The scientific views that came to the field within the framework of linguacultural studies showed the relevance of studying metaphor as one of the important means of expressing the national, unique, specific worldview of a certain nation. Metaphor is an artistic speech focused on the imagination, the trope of similarity, the use of a word in a figurative sense based on associations of similarity. "Metaphor is a hidden comparison made by applying the name of one object to another and thereby revealing the important features of the other [1, 64]". Another similar definition is given by Uzbek linguist M.T.Iriskulov: “Metaphor is naming one word with another word on the basis of similarities of these two words. It increases the influences of the meaning of a word. «He also defines that metonym is the transference of the meaning between two words on the basis of permanent relationships of objects and events in particular time and events. As can be seen, the definitions given for these lexical-stylistic devices are similar and now it is better to move on their usage in English and Uzbek fictional works [2, 48]. Modern cognitive linguistics completely abandons the above traditional definition of metaphor. That is, they deny the definition of metaphor as a method of comparison, a method of decorating speech. They also disagree with the definition of metaphor in generative linguistics as the interaction of two deep basic structures (N.Chomsky, L.N.Murzin, etc.). Representatives of modern cognitive linguistics (J.Lakoff, M.Johnson, N.D.Arutyunova, A.N.Baranov, Yu.N.Karaulov, V.Z.Demyankov, E.S.Kubryakova, etc.) 278