ARTISTIC AND COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH RIDDLES: A COMPARATIVE-TYPOLOGICAL STUDY
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The article examines the artistic and compositional organization of Uzbek and English riddles from a comparative-typological perspective. Riddles are treated as compact folklore texts in which an object is deliberately concealed through metaphor, comparison, personification, paradox, enumeration and sound patterning. The analysis focuses on the relation between the riddle image and its answer, the internal sequence of descriptive clues, rhythm and rhyme, syntactic compression, dialogic formulas and culturally marked imagery. The study shows that both traditions employ a common cognitive mechanism: a familiar object is redescribed through another semantic domain, creating a temporary contradiction that is resolved by the answer. At the same time, Uzbek riddles more frequently activate images connected with traditional dress, agriculture, household utensils and bread culture, whereas English riddles often rely on household architecture, tools, mechanisms and concise interrogative formulas. These differences demonstrate how a universal folklore genre acquires nationally specific aesthetic forms
