Streszczenie
Understanding of universal and linguistic nature of metaphor is presented in the article
with a marking out the ontological and epistemological aspects of metaphor. The peculiarities
of the basic types of verbal activity (mythological, logical and aesthetic) are described from the
semantic side.
Semantic peculiarities of the types of verbal thinking are presented in the way of identity
and allegory. In the logical type of verbal activity as well as in the aesthetic type are described
two types of semantic realization - metonymical and metaphorical.