Comparative analysis of stylistic devices to implement the opposition in a paroemia

This paper is devoted to stylistic aspects of the realization of the opposition. The material for the analysis of the opposition as a complex linguistic and philosophical notion is French, English and Russian paroemia. The timeliness of this study is defined by insufficient knowledge of some language aspects of the realization of the opposition in comparative aspect. Among stylistic means of expression of the opposition it is necessary to single out the antithesis as the most explicit form of clearly highlighted opposition. Other stylistic devices represented relatively equally in the three languages include disjuncthesis and general preference formulae. Stylistic devices of disidentification, amphithesis and diathesis are unique to the Russian language, because they cannot exist in the French and English languages, where syntax tends to a fixed and progressive word order.