COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES AND EPITHETS

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of epithets in science and a critical analysis of theoretical views on it. The author of the article tried to clarify the difference between a logical qualification and an epithet on the example of the views that dominated Russian linguistics and literary criticism at the beginning of the 20th century. The article also attempts to clarify the linguistic difference between defining and epithetic devices, a simple characteristic (in science it is also called a logical characteristic) and a poetic characteristic through ways to achieve an artistic characteristic (epithet) through a logical characteristic.