Al-Shanfara's Argumentative Simile: The Image of Power

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Aswan University - Faculty of Arts - Department of Arabic Language - Aswan

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One of the main aims of rhetoric is to persuade and affect the recipient's ideas through various figures of speech and rhetorical devices; thus, rhetoric is considered one of the most significant argumentative mechanisms. Accordingly, rhetorical argumentation is one of the most important tools on which the poet relies in presenting his argument, and thus the rhetorical mechanisms can be combined with enjoyment and persuasion.
Simile is one of the rhetorical devices which have a persuasive effect on the reader. Therefore, the poet seeks to link his similes with the excitement degree of the recipient. In modern and past decades, many scientists and scholars attempt to detail the limits and types of simile. The pre-Islamic poet relied heavily on simile; it was his first means of persuading the recipient of his proposed idea, and this issue aroused the attention of the ancients and modernists. In their studies, the modernists have referred to the rhetorical importance of smile, as well as its strength and impact on the recipient. Furthermore, simile represents a literary mechanism which helps the poet to form the poetic structure of his poems. Most of the modernists seek to emphasize the importance of using imagery and argumentation in their poems.

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