Rhetorical Personification in the Holy Quran | ||
| Journal Dawat | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 10, December 2016, Pages 35-53 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Jassim Muslim | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research seeks to define the concept of personification by looking at the works of ancient and modern rhetoricians .In addition , it tries to pin point its patterns in the holy Quran , then illustrate its importance and usefulness on the level of style and generation of meaning. The research is divided into a preface, an introduction and two sections. The introduction looks at the origin of the word personification in the rhetorical and critical heritage of Arabs and also reveals the modernists’ opinions about it. The first section is a study of the personification patterns of inanimate objects in the Quran.This is an empirical investigation that demonstrates through examples the usefulness and relevance of this metaphorical function to the Quranic style. The Holy Quran adopts this style in many places to point out the meanings in a perfect way. The second section deals with the personification patterns of mental concepts in the Quran. It attempts to reveal the importance of this technique that makes the mental image and the abstract ideas stand as a moving object. The study ends with the most important findings that the researcher has found out. | ||
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