COMIC CREATION MEANS IN JAMES THURBER`S NOVEL "THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY".
The given article deals with comic creation tools in the novel of American humorist James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. A wide range of syntactical and lexical means as parallelism, paradox, irony, neologisms, malapropisms and other are considered. Examples from the original literary text that prove theoretical considerations, as well as various symbols to depict the character and inner world of the main hero of the given novel are analyzed.