In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Society for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature

Document Type : applied research

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The emergence of existential metaphors in the children's stories of peace .The science of rhetoric is not only applied in adults' literature. Metaphor is one of the rhetoric concepts and applications that has a fundamental role in children's stories. The themes of the many children's story are dealt with peace and friendship. The writers have used the metaphoric language in order to make the story more influential. Hence, they have used to this method of peace training to achieve the highest level of thinking. The findings indicate that among the conceptual metaphors, the existential metaphors and their sub-divisions have been the most frequents ones used in children's story books by writers to train and gutturalize the culture of peace to the audience. Holistically, the existential metaphors have been remarkable applied in such a way to make the abstract and intricate subjects more tangible and comprehensible for children .Keywords: peace, story children, metaphor, ontologism

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