THE CHARACTERISTIC OF COLORATIVES IN THE NOVELS BY DAN BROWN ("THE da VINCI CODE", "THE LOST SYMBOL", "ANGELS AND DEMONS")
In this article we analyze the coloratives in Dan Brown’s novels - “The Da Vinci Code”, “The Lost Symbol”, “Angels and Demons”. Our attention focused on the comprehensive characteristic of coloratives, its structural, stylistic and pragmatic features, also specifics in the texts’ usage. Dan Brown is the one of the most popular and successful author in modern world and there are many researchers who want to know what is his secret of success. Many features of his novels demonstrate that he uses some successful scheme which he had carefully developed for many years. The researchers found that Dan Brown had created a new form of modern novel. Analyzing the coloratives in Dan Brown’s novels, we notice that there are many coloratives and each of them do its own function in the text, the majority of them use for creation some effect and influence for reader, the attempt to intrigue. And this author’s idea implements very well. There are many coloratives in Dan Brown’s novels, also there are specific author’s tropes with coloratives, the most frequent types of them are: comparison (black like oil), metaphors (ghostly eyes), metonymies (blond woman, cherry divan), and the phrases with epithets (black light, dark hole). There are also individually coloratives such as blackened blood, blood-red, jet-black eyes, snow-white, ghost-pale skin, black as death, and other. Telling about the structural types of coloratives, there are five groups: the most frequent type is adjective with noun; noun, verb and adjective; single noun or noun with noun with adverb or sometimes with adjective; single participle or participle with noun; and the last one - the comparative phrases. We can made the conclusion, that predominantly the author uses in his novels the same coloratives, which create the special mysterious atmosphere, they are: black, red, white, dark, pale, the coloratives in his novels are simple, understandable for every reader, but every reader intellectual or not will be interested in his novels, because someone see only the superficial sense, and another reader will understand something secret and profound.