The Use of Literary Metaphors and Their Importance in Teaching English Literature

The purpose of this study was to test a hypothesis that claims that language units that form a field of nontrivial (literary, authorial) associative connections realize a literary metaphor enclosed in the book title. The title of Guzel Yakhina's novel, "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes," is a literary metaphor that foreshadows the heroine's internal transformation following a series of harrowing experiences leading to an epiphany that liberates her from her fears, prejudices, and ignorance of the outside world. A list of language units from the continuous sampling method that were utilized in the first chapter of Guzel Yakhina's book "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes" and related to the "visual perception" lexico-semantic field was produced during the research. The study's findings included the discovery and in-depth analysis of linguistic (semantic and grammar) features of such units featured in the literary text, as well as an examination of the degree of realization of the novel's central metaphor at the level of verbal units from the book's opening section. Both the semantic and morphological aspects of this field have been studied; the latter because of the notion of cognitive aspects of morphology in various forms that is emerging in modern science on both theoretical and practical levels. The authors of this study firmly believe that a deeper comprehension of the realization features of the author's idea can be achieved by analyzing the morphological units in Guzel Yakhina's literary text that represent the concept of "blindness."