ACROVERSE, CHARADE AND OTHER VARITIES OF GENRE OF LITERARY RIDDLE IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF XVIII CENTURY
The author of the article analyzes acrostic riddles, charades and riddles with sound rhyming clue in the context of Russian poetry of the second half of the XVIII century and also in comparison with folk riddles. Using by the poets these riddles genre varieties was due to cognitive and heuristic purpose of the genre, as well as its structural and compositional characteristics. During the analysis the author comes to the conclusion that the feature of these types of riddles genre is the presence of key in the coding part (or sound rhyming clue) and verbalization of the implied images and concepts, through their respective lexemes.