Expressive means of Ahmadu Kurum’s literary language: the role of metaphors, hyperbole, and comparisons

The article deals with discursive expressiveness through literary images, which is a characteristic feature of Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma’s work. The combination of different and often unexpected isotopes creates a peculiar mood when reading his works. The author’s style, which relies heavily on oral language, influences the sharpness and hyperbole of images when characterizing facts, characters, and events. The combination of all these factors ultimately leads to the emergence of an expressive note in literary discourse. Kourоuma’s works can be seen as an invitation to think about the French language in terms of description through a certain expressiveness that convinces the reader of its discursive richness. The study demonstrates that in his literary work, Ahmadou Kourouma actively employs a wide range of linguistic tools that are not characteristic of traditional fiction narrative. Comparison, metaphor, and hyperbole are linguistic techniques that contribute to the enrichment of artistic language in Kourouma’s novels. Each of these rhetorical techniques introduces unique semantic nuances, allowing you to structure a literary work in accordance with a certain communicative intent. The use of these strategies makes it possible to effectively manage the translocative effect, which, in turn, contributes to the achievement of the set communicative goals. Thus, the author constructs a multi-layered language synthesis and modifies the structure of the French language in accordance with the set artistic objectives.

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