Keyword: «aphorism»

The article presents tasks on the formation of students of the 9th grade of a secondary school of the skill of analyzing a dramatic work when studying the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "Poverty is not a vice" and the tragedy of I. V. Goethe "Faust". Certain types of tasks are offered. Such as: restoration of the composition of the work, work with quotations, compilation of a quotation table, expressive (accent-semantic) reading of the passage of the work by roles, comparison of a fragment of the performance (actors' games) with the author's text, discussion of a problematic issue; oral and written statements-stylization of episodes.

The purpose of the article is to identify the language means of a pun explication in Kozma Prutkov’s aphorisms, which can serve as signs of the satirical and ironic idiostyle of this fictional character. The types of lexical dominants of pun aphorisms, as well as super verbal means of creating a pun effect are analyzed here. Comparative and classification methods for systematization of linguistic material are used in this investigation to establish differential features of keywords and paradigmatic relations between them.