STABLE COMPARISONS WITH AN EMOTIONAL-EVALUATIVE CONNOTATION (BASED ON THE DICTIONARY OF STABLE COMPARISONS)
The article discusses the features of the emotional and evaluative connotation of stable comparisons that characterize the appearance and quality of a person's character. Investigating stable comparisons, the authors come to the conclusion that stable comparisons with the zoonym component have a pejorative emotional-evaluative connotation, and stable comparisons with the phytonym component have a meliorative emotional-evaluative connotation. Knowledge of the features of the emotional and evaluative component of language units will certainly help to form the communicative competence of foreign speakers.