The figure of thought in the letters in Egypt from the Islamic conquest to the end of the Tulunid period

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Faculty of Arts, Aswan University, Aswan

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The figure of thought is based on the element of imagination, and requires creative energy to discover the proportional relationships between things, and to present meaning in a strong expressive way.

The figure of thought gives the literary work strength, beauty, and influence. On the other hand, it expresses the writer's experience and feelings in order to clarify the meaning, strengthen it, and dress it with more beauty and art. Therefore, the testators were keen to employ it in their wills to paint a beautiful picture appropriate to the meaning. Which leaves a strong impact on the same recipient instead of throwing the meaning in a direct and dry way.

The testators of Egypt, from the Islamic conquest to the end of the Tulunid period, demonstrated their artistic potential, fertile imagination, and graphic ingenuity, and painted their meanings and ideas with beautiful figures of thought derived from the reality of Egyptian life, so they resorted to comparisons, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to draw their figures of thought. Where they help eloquent comparisons expressing the meaning they want to communicate to the recipient. They also knocked on the door of metaphor to embody and diagnose their meanings, and to give them more vitality and movement. They also cared about employing metonymy and synecdoche in their wills in beautiful manner. These figures of thought were devoid of ambiguity and complexity. She was truly a degree of eloquence, clarity and brilliance

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