Utilization of Simile in Faraj Yaseen's The Father's Post
Ali Yaseen Habeeb
Sunni Waqf / Office of Religious Education and Islamic Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.4.10
Keywords: Utilization simile short story Faraj Yaseen
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.
