To the question of the poetics of the Antiochus Cantemir’s poems

The article offers generalizing data concerning the system of rhetorical techniques used by A.D.Kantemir in small and medium-sized poetic genres. practice Kantemir is compared with recommendations from treatises Feofan Prokopovich De arte poetica rhetorica libri X, use various devices certain literary genres styles. hypothesis work assumption synthetic nature syllable Antiochus Kantemir, which close not so much to classicistic requirements clarity accuracy as traditions Old Russian book style weaving words. For first time undertaken comprehensive analysis tropes figures his poetry, testifies their qualitative quantitative diversity familiarity creator satire. analyzed grammatical, stylistic linguo-poetic aspects are introduced into scientific for time. Inversion, ellipsis, amplification, lexical repetition, question exclamation most common types Kantemir’s poetry. Comparison, metonymy, personification paraphrase more rare genre conditioned works Kantemir. marginal varieties include hyperbole, gradation, chiasm, silence, pun. acts an innovator who determined further paths formation lyric