Identification of Effective Rhetorical Elements in Writing a Realistic Story in Persian Language Relying on the Investigation of Qoltashan Divan Written by Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh

Abstract

Having been regarded as one of the most influential literary schools, realism has
always been discussed from different scientific perspectives. However, these rhetorical elements
have always been neglected in terms of creation of a realistic literary work in Persian literature.
This article focuses on the rhetorical elements of Persian language in order to recognize the
methods of literary creation in terms of the literary school of realism. Regarding this kind of
recognition, the first section of this paper presents the detailed characteristics of realism school.
Given such characteristics, one of the most important literary works of Jamalzadeh, Qoltashan
divan, will prove to be a realist one. Regarding the most prominent features of the literary school
of realism, the most influential elements of Persian rhetoric are explained thereof. After that,
these rhetorical elements are recognized and explained in terms of Jamalzadeh’s work. Having
done this, it becomes evident that three rhetorical elements of circumlocution, symbol and
kenning are the most prominent and influential rhetorical elements of Persian language that can
be implemented to compose a realistic work.