« THE USAGE OF LEXICAL-STYLISTIC DEVICES: METAPHOR, IRONY, SYNECDOCHE IN UZBEK, RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH SHORT STORIES

The subject for consideration in the article are short stories of Uzbek, Russian and English writers. The purpose of this article is to examine the classification of stylistic devices, and to highlight the main types of stylistic devices in the literary text. The main task to achieve this goal is to consider metaphor, irony, synecdoche and analyze their application in practice, taking as the basis the work by the best short writers: Abdulla Qahhar, Anton Pavlov Chekhov and Washington Irving. In the conclusion of the article the main findings, based on the goal and objectives, are presented and summarized