Document Type : applied research
Abstract
This article is written to aims to identify ways of brevity in Shahnameh Rostam and Esfandiar. Most books of Rhetoric, in the discussion of brevity, relying on basis of references Arabic, only one overall definition and presentation of evidence about it have sufficient evidence is often repeated in books. But with very few exceptions, the methods and motives neglected or Maybe it isn't investigated. This article authors have found styles of brevity in Rostam & Esfandiar that can be the pattern of this kind of brevity in particular and other Persian literature in particular. In addition to the methods such as use of proverbs, allusions, aphorisms, compound words and derivatives, interrogative sentences, phrases, metaphors and similes turning that have been mentioned in some Persian rhetorical books for brevity, it is found and proposed some ways like using descriptive phrases, adjectives, pronouns referring , given name, generalize, using particles and letters such as "the," "and" and ... in this paper.
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