LINGUISTIC AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE DESCRIPTION IN E. BRONTE'S WORK “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”

Abstract

The article deals with the linguistic and stylistic features of landscape description in Emily Brontë's novel “Wuthering Heights” as a means of creating an emotional, figurative, and aesthetic impact on the reader. The main scientific results are obtained applying a set of general scientific and special methods of research, namely: theoretical – analytical review, generalization, and concretization; empirical – comparative analysis; linguistic – contrastive, descriptive, structural methods.

The authors note that phonetic (alliteration, assonance, epiphora, rhyme, anaphora, onomatopoeia, etc.), lexical (antonym, synonym, homonym, paronym, lexical repetition, etc.), syntactic (inversion, ellipsis, parallelism, polysyndeton, asyndeton, etc.) and stylistic (tropes: metaphor, epithet, simile, personification, hyperbole, etc.) means are used to create vivid emotional and figurative descriptions of nature.

An analysis of the linguistic and stylistic features of landscape description in E. Brontë's “Wuthering Heights” shows that the most commonly used devices are epithet, metaphor (and its type – personification), simile, hyperbole, polysyndeton, and parallelism. The authors classify epithets according to the method of semantic reinterpretation (emotional and semantic meaning) and the nature of perception; personification according to the type of action that the author attributes to inanimate phenomena or parts of nature, and according to the affiliation of the action; they describe various structural types of similes and parallelism.

It has been proven that all the means used perform the same set of functions: they convey emotions, create imagery, make the text more vivid, enhance the expressiveness of the statement, reveal the characters' personalities, and reflect the author's individual writing style.