Higher school of economics, Moscow, Russia
The paper provides a systematic overview of non-standard forms of simile used in Stephen King’s prose. It describes modifications of the traditional as…as, like and as if / as though patterns, considers alternative ways of constructing similes at the syntactic level, explores the possibility of coding comparison morphologically, and analyzes the basic semantic features of the simile types under study. Creative forms of simile are dealt with within the context of linguistic creativity.
simile; linguistic creativity; Stephen King
Download textFor citing: Nagornaya A.V. (2018). Creative types of simile in Stephen King’s prose. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(34): Anthropocentric paradigm in humanities, pp. 103-117.