Onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, epithets as the features of Leigh Bardugo’s fantasy worlds’ creation.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of certain stylistic means, which were used by the popular novelist Leigh Bardugo. As the material for the research styde the author has chosen the fantasy novel “Shadow and Bone” which immerses the reader into the Grishaverse – fivtional world which was thoroughly created by L.Bardugo. The purpose of the scientific study is relevant because it suggests to analyze and interpret the discourse of the fantasy worlds of Leigh Bardugo which will help to interpret them correctly in Ukrainian. The author underlines that the study of the artistic text and the language of individual authors cannot do without referring to the concept of individual style. Each work of art focuses on one of the "possible worlds" of the author, his picture of the world in sounds, colors, emotions, and assessments. It is mentioned that special attention must be given to the author’s style, which is manifested in everything: in the selection of life material, in the formulation of problems, in the choice of the subject of the works, in the favorite methods of composition, in the character of the emotional tonality of the work, in the means and methods of creating images, in ideas, in genre preferences, in the choice of creative material, in the selection and organization of language units, etc. The author make stress on the fact that the creation of the fantasy worlds is impossible without the system of semantic and aesthetic complexes, without a system of emotional and evaluative complexes, which should be represented at the linguistic level. The result of the studies of the implementation of the category of emotionality in the text proved the implementation of various stylistic means, such as: onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, epithets, etc. The novel is written and must be interpreted in a bright and fascinating language, in which there are many author's neologisms. There are many multi-events, all kinds of transformations, "circle composition", symbolic elements which are expressed through various stylistic means. In the Bardugo’s text, there is a mixture of two narrative styles: fantastic (violation of the laws of nature is allowed) and realistic, with a predominance of one or the other. On a realistic background, fantastic interspersions are possible, and, on the contrary, realistic layers are observed in fantastic things (even the main character - Alina is both the hero of a and the teller). As the conclusion the author suggest to analyze the Bardugo's individual style, as the mix of fantasy, fairy tales’ motives, detective’s features and elements of folklore which are intricately intertwined in the novel “Shadow and Bone” due to the extensive implementation of stylistic means and creation of the highly emotional twisted plot.