A Critical Review of Implicit Metaphor in Rhetorical Works
Subject Areas : Research in Iranian classical literature
Ahmad
1
,
Keramatalah Zayyari
2
,
Ahmad p
3
,
مهدی قرخلو
4
,
مهدی وفایی فرد
5
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Qom
2 - University of Tehran
3 -
4 -
5 -
Keywords: Reviews , criticism , Implicit Metaphor , Rhetorical Works,
Abstract :
One of the most debatable types of metaphor is perhaps the implicit metaphor. This type of metaphor cannot be found in the early rhetorical works. It was the great scholar, Jurjani, who dealt with this metaphorical structure, yet he has not men-tioned any name for it. Once a name was coined for this term, disputes over its authenticity also began. Some researchers refrained to recognize it as a metaphor, some described it as implicit simile and some just repeated others' views. In recent times some researchers, by suggesting it as a kind of personification, have tried o solve the problem; however, they have finally admitted that the implicit metaphor is broader and more inclusive than personification. In this paper, in addition to reviewing and analyzing this term chronologically in rhetorical works,we have shown that rhetorics researchers have paid more atten-tion to the definition of metaphor and have focused on the implicit metaphor in terms of terminology; they have considered it from the lexical aspect, while based on the definition of Sakkaki and other rhetoricians, "metaphoricity" of this structure is acceptable, however we can not accept constraints such as “imaginative". It can also regard personification, subordinate metaphor , animism as branches of the implicit metaphor, not it's alternatives.