abdollah vacegh-abbasi; mohamad choharmahali; hosayn sadeghi
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Abstract "Simile" plays an important role in the emergence of anecdotes in the third book of Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, and has led to the emergence of special types of allegorical ...
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Abstract "Simile" plays an important role in the emergence of anecdotes in the third book of Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, and has led to the emergence of special types of allegorical anecdotes, which in this article, are referred to as "clustered and non- clustered allegorical anecdotes". These anecdotes as vehicles (object of the simile) are like a compound or broad metaphor whose starting point is placed in one or more than one verse. In the cluster allegorical type, each anecdote has a multi-core narrative and a dependent anecdote as a cluster, while in the non-cluster type, there are only one or more narrative cores and there is no anecdote as a cluster. In this context, allegory, narration, anecdote, cluster and non-cluster anecdotes are inextricably linked to simile. The present article addresses the questions found in both rhetorical and narrative domains. The questions are as follows: "How does simile relate to and affect the narrative structure of the anecdotes?" and "What classifications have similes created in the structure of the anecdotes of the third book of Masnavi?" From this perspective, the researchers have analyzed the anecdotes of the third book of Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, scrutinizing different types of short and long allegorical anecdotes. It is found that in all anecdotes studied, simile is manifested as the main and constructive element in the vertical axis of the anecdotes
