Peculiarities of the dynamics of metaphorical competence of Russian-speaking students learning English

The present article explores metaphorical competence of students of the Faculty of modern foreign languages and literature who learn English as the basic foreign language. Metaphorical competence as the ability to understand and reproduce metaphor is one of the key directions in modern studies of metaphor. Correlation of metaphorical competence with the level of language competence is also studied in the article.