Speech characteristics of a literary text personage at semantic level

The article outlines the verbal-semantic level of the linguistic personality of Dorian Gray in the novel “The Picturet
of Dorian Gray” written by Oscar Wilde. The level aims to study the usage of verbal categories such as words, grammatical,
associative, semantic-syntactic structures, lexical and syntax patterns. When analyzing linguistic personality, it is necessary
to determine and record vivid features in the language of literary characters. Proper names the author uses in the fiction
have tight connection with certain associations concerning characters of the novel (Lord Henry). The language personality
of Dorian Gray is characterized by the frequently used exclamations, the use of imperative forms, superlative adjectives
and expressive adverbs, the usage of personal pronoun ‘I’, the usage of modal ‘must’