Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the role of metaphor in enriching the lexical layer of language. In the article, metaphor is interpreted as a unit of the second nomination system. The article states that language reacts to what happens around it, just like the society that uses it. There are different ways to enrich the lexical-semantic layer of language, and one of them is metaphorization. It is noted that language does not copy reality, but only reflects its perception by a person in a certain way. Metaphors are one of the ways of such reflection. In the article, metaphor is characterized as a figure of speech used in describing a class of objects from the names of objects belonging to the same class
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