xt. The given aim predetermines the concrete tasks of the research. The diploma paper pursues the following tasks : 1) to substantiate tasks of text interpretation; 2) to reveal the theoretical notion of the text and its categories; 3) to observe emotional, evaluative, expressive components of the lexical meaning of adjectives; 4) to work out the classification of types of epithet. The novelty of our work is that the epithet is inspected as the necessary component of the functional whole-text; the investigation of metaphorical epithet, from the position of intentional and implicational