An approach to simile and allegory in Nafsatol Masdour

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

Dr.Farideh Karimi Moughari ¹ , Saied Ghanbari Fashi ²

1 - A member of educational board, Islamic Azad University of Varamin
2 - M.A. Student of Islamic Azad University of Varamin

Received: 2019-05-04 Accepted : 2019-05-04 Published : 2012-05-21

Keywords: تشبیه, نثر فنی, simile, Allegory, نفثه المصدور, technical prose, کنا یه, Nafsatol Masdour,

Abstract :

Nafsatol Masdour is a book authorized by Mohammad zeydari nasavi(632), a secretary of sultan Jalaleddin kharazm. He had been accompanyingthe courayous prince in his battles against the Mongols and had the chanceof saving his memoirs of the failure occurred. Thus, Nafsatol Masdour is ahis toric-literal work of an. On one had he is picturing the war, the murderand the loot and on the other hand orating his overflowing emotions andfeeling towards the honorable king (Sultan Jalaleddin).This is one of the most innovative masterpieces of technical prose and ofthe best synthetic one in the seventh century.The narrator employing historiography, artistic innovation and delightfullness aims at glorifying the words and expressions. Epithetic, metaphoricand allegoric compounds underlying the words and expressions underlyingthe words and expressions, both explicitly and implicitly, knit the threadsof the book toga her. Meanwhile, this study examines the similes andallegories the similes and allegories employed in the work.