STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF APHORISMS
The article deals with the stylistic peculiarities of aphorisms in the French language. On the basis of the statements of such French writers, scientists and journalists as Gustave Flaubert, Guillaume Appolinaire, Romain Rolland, André Laurendeau, Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, Philippe de or Commynes, etc. there were analyzed the following kinds of the stylistic devices: metaphor, antithesis, syntactical parallelism, simile, personification, gradation, ellipsis, chiasmus, anaphor and synecdoche.