Sunni Waqf / Office of Religious Education and Islamic Studies
Abstract
This paper adopts the descriptive analytic method to analyse the type of simile used in Faraj Yaseen's collection of short stories: The Father's Post and how he utilized the elements of the surrounding environment –by using simile—to paint an effective portrait which participated in conveying and illuminating the meaning of his work. He employed human nature, as well as spatial, universal and animal nature to draw his similes believing that such similes can be employed to what normal language cannot render explicitly because violates the logic of familiar language and this violation –undoubtedly—creates wonder and defamiliarization because simile is part of the total image related to wonder tales and it forms, at the same time, one of its distinctive stylistic features and this sematic aspect is able to dismantle the elements of reality and then rearrange them in a new effective image.
