LINGUACULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH RIDDLES

Abstract

The article determines the linguistic and cultural  peculiarities of the English riddle. ”. Riddle is a genre of folk art, which remains to be one of the least developed.  The main characteristic of them is the search for and finding the answer to the encoded text. By analyzing English riddles, their structural, semantic and cultural features are described, mechanisms such as metaphor and homonymy lying at the basis of riddles are studied and a detailed classification of English riddles is developed. Riddles in English are found in the form of simple, complex and compound sentences, moreover they can make the text. They fall into declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences according to the communicative type. In terms of Pragmatics, sacred, educational, and entertaining riddles are classified. The style of riddles is different considering lexical formed by metaphor, comparison and personification, syntactic by antithesis and inversion and phonetic made with the help of alliteration, assonance and rhyme.  Riddles can be created by individual authors and folk.