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THE INFLUENCE OF THE STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF THE TITLES ON THE READERS' PERCEPTION OF THE LITERARY TEXT ^{[№ 11 ' 2016]}
The article is devoted to the study of the influence of the titles and their stylistic peculiarities on the readers' perception of the literary text. A title is a component of the text which gives it a name. It has great importance for understanding the idea and the philosophical meaning of the literary work. The title is not a simple code of symbolic system, but it is always a symbol of some meaning. In recent decades the titles of the literary works have attracted great attention of many philologists. It can be explained not because of the title's unique place but also because of its many different functions. Relevance of study is defined by development in this sphere, appearance of new aspects in title's theory and its importance in perception of the text. A special group of titles includes titles with stylistic peculiarities (tropes). The titles can include: the meaning of a literary work, its content, problem and main ideas of the literary text. It underlines that it is important to start with reading the text first because it can help to understand the main idea of the literary work better and more completely. The article describes the process of the reader's perceiving the meaning of the title and the literary work as the whole. Perception can be hindered by the absence of life experience and background knowledge of the culture, literature and folklore of English speaking countries. It also proves the title takes the main place in the structure of the literary work and gives it a great meaning. It helps to make the reader's perception more active and to direct his or her attention at the main ideas of the literary work. As the result, authors make much effort making the readers to be interested in the text with a help of its title. To achieve the aim the authors often use the tropes to attract the attention of as many readers as possible. According to tropes the classification of titles is created: titles with metaphors, epithets, hyperboles, alliteration, personification, allusion, antonyms and proverbs. They change the readers' perception with the help of stylistic devices used in the titles of literary texts. It becomes much deeper and brighter. The article underlines the importance of having skills to find, define and correctly interpret all kinds of tropes and their functions in the titles of the literary text.