Keyword: «anti-utopia»

The article deals with the characteristic features of S. Meyer’s artistic manner in her bestseller “The Host”. The novelist’s stylistic devices are viewed within the context of her imagery and themes. The writer comes to the conclusion that the novel under analysis abounds with tropes showing high expressive potential. The reader’s background knowledge must be involved the process of interpretation. Frequent use of stylistic devices based upon logical opposition typical of oratorical and belles-lettres function styles accounts for the success of the anti-utopia.