My article addresses the qualities of “good” literature and how an understanding of the nature of literary devices, so-called “literariness”, can enhance the reading experience. Focusing on Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018), I discuss some of the most important features of good writing. Six literary devices have been selected for special attention: point of view, tone, amplification, anecdotes,...

Mark Twain made use of repetition and parallelism as two comedic literary devices to bring comic effect to the readers. Linguistic devices of humor, repetition and parallelism seemed to create many difficulties in the translation of literary texts. The present study applied Delabatista‟s strategies for translating wordplays such as repetition and parallelism in the translation of humorous texts...

the ode “buka'iyya ila shams haziran” is considered as one of the critical and extreme poems of abd al-wahhab al-bayati, the significant contemporary arab literary figure (1999-1926). applying a simple language which is also vague in some aspects, the poem is allocated to presenting social and political conditions of arab countries and analyzing the reasons associated with 1967 june defeat. as ...

This study focused on the literary devices used in Edgar Allan Poe’s crime stories. Poe certain techniques to convey information exactly and accurately. would like examine "Literary Devices Poe's Crime Stories: An Analysis ". The by writer were their ability use it identify interpretations stands for. also aimed analyze prevalent Stories of Poe. findings this served as a basis for proposing tec...

some believe that language and literature are two independent systems while others hold that the two areas are not independent of each other. the present study has tried to demonstrate that persian poetry is closely tied with the language by evaluating the influence of scrambling, word order, complex predicates, subject-verb agreement as well as some supersegmental features in hafez’s works as ...

The present study aimed firstly at investigating the impact of translators' style on figurative language translation from English into Persian. Secondly, it intended to find which strategies were most frequently adopted by Persian translators to translate figures of speech into Persian. Lastly, the study sought to check the extent of transference of figurative features of literary texts in Engl...

this article discusses the literary character of kumeit, a renowned shi’ite poet during umayyad dynasty. it attempts to defend the credibility of the citations made to kumeit’s poems. it also responds to some of the misgivings about this credibility. to this end, major literary works have been examined in order to explain the different literary and poetic techniques and devices such as lexi...