USE OF STYLISTIC MEANS OF COMIC CATEGORY AT THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC LEVEL: FIGURES OF QUANTITY

The article deals with the study of linguo-stylistic means comic category representation at lexico-semantic level. Modern English prose is characterized by a specific modality, which characteristic feature author’s individual style. leading level, that contribute to realization effect in belles-letters texts, have been analyzed. material research English-language works small forms most prominent writers, such as: K. Barry, Vonnegut, R. Carver and Dahl. aforementioned authors use hyperbolization, introduced similes, indefinite pronouns, nouns formed from numerals (in process numeralization), temporal spatial adverbs, set lexical units negative colouring, adjectives superlative degree comparison, modal verbs form, emphatic constructions.