Keyword: «synesthesia»

The units of predicate vocabulary are characterized as a means of representing objects of the natural world, capturing their beauty; the words in the predicate function used in the description of the pheasant are analyzed. The features of V.M. Peskov’s idiostyle as a journalist or a moderator of the program «Window to Nature», are highlighted. These features determined the creation of visible, colorful natural images and had an educational effect on the addressee.

The investigation of the synesthesia metaphor of L.N. Tolstoy on the material of his novels Semejnoe schast`e, Anna Karenina and Krejcerova sonata is presented in this article. The mentioned works belong to the mature period of the writer’s oeuvre with a well-defined idiostyle. The primary synesthesia is described as a transfer of a sign of one type of perception to another and the secondary one – as a transfer of a sign of one of perception type to psychological experiences, emotions and feelings of a character.