Abstract
As is well known, an artistic text is a complex structure of elements that are diversely related and differ in their qualities. All these elements, which form informational and communicative qualities, «work»directly on the content plan. Identifying the linguistic-stylistic features of a work of art contributes to adeeper insight into the content of the work of art. The relevance of the research is connected with the increased interest of modern linguistics to the issues of speech organization of an artistic text. The purposeof this article is to identify the leading techniques of speech imagery in children’s works K.I. Chukovsky,acting as style-forming and text-forming components, as well as a means of creating a language game.Despite the natural limitations of the phonetic methods of lingual game, however, K.I. Chukovskyskillfully uses all the potentials of the phonetic structure of the Russian language, leading to a lingualgame. In the process of linguistic stylistic analysis, various phonetic techniques of expressiveness wererevealed: alliteration, assonation, epiphora, anaphora, onomatopei. The use of this arsenal of pictorialand expressive means makes the language of the works of K.I. Chukovsky emotional, easily remembered,understandable for readers, gives him texts dynamics and expressiveness. The study is significant in thatit solves questions of the modern theory of linguistics, questions of linguistic and stylistic analysis of thepoetic text, identifies ways to create a language game in children’s works. The results can be appliedto further theoretical studies in the field of linguistic stylistics, as well as in the teaching of disciplinesrelated to.