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The article describes and discusses perception of ballade genre form in lyrics by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, one of the most prominent Victorian authors. Transformation of ballade form in Victorian verse, and simplification of it is discussed on the material of Kipling’s works. The poet’s perception of ballade is viewed upon in the cultural context of Victorian period and is compared with those of other famous Victorian authors. Materials and results of the research could be applied in teaching courses on History of the Foreign Literature, special courses on the European verse in the university.

The article discusses exotic lexical units in the text of E. Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, their usage and functioning. Spanish borrowings in the novel are viewed from the viewpoint of their grammatical, semantic, and graphical peculiarities. The question of their assimilation is also touched upon. As a result of the study, the principal ways of Spanish exotic lexical units representation in the text of the novel are identified; the quantitative characteristics of their topical groups are given; the role and significance of frequent usage of these lexical units in the novel is grounded.