THE REFLECTION OF RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF RUSSIAN AND KAZAKH ETHNIC GROUPS IN METAPHORICAL COMPARISON

The article describes semantic features of expression of the individual comparisons of fiction authors of the XX century, which are reflected in the mirror of the religious view on the world of different ethnic groups (Russian and Kazakh); an analysis of culturally significant concepts was carried out which are verbalized through metaphorical comparisons, and thereby become the property of language and reader’s consciousness; the idea that the study of individual comparisons, in the figurative content of which there is an implementation of people's mentality and spiritual culture, can provide clues to the national consciousness is proved.