OMPARATIVE STUDY OF SYNECDOCHE, IRONY, AND SIMILE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK HISTORICAL WORKS (BASED ON CHARLES DICKENS’S “A TALE OF TWO CITIES” AND ABDULLA QODIRIY’S “SCORPION FROM THE ALTAR”)

Abstract

This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the artistic devices used in Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” and Abdulla Qodiriy’s “Mehrobdan chayon” historical novels. The main purpose of the study is to identify the role, function, and stylistic features of such key artistic devices as synecdoche, irony, and simile in the works of writers belonging to two different cultural and literary traditions. The article employs comparative-typological, structural-semantic, and contextual analysis methods, revealing similarities and differences in the artistic styles of Dickens and Qodiriy. The study shows that both authors used these artistic devices not only for aesthetic purposes but also as powerful tools for expressing and criticizing the pressing social, political, and spiritual problems of their eras. In Dickens, these devices reflect class oppression and the bloody nature of revolution on a global scale, while in Qodiriy they serve to expose the crisis of national spirituality during the colonial period and hypocrisy in society.