Persian prose in folk Written Fiction

Abstract

Folk literature has a special place in literary criticism and significant achievements in the field of linguistic, literary and content studies, including historical, cultural and sociological information. This paper, by descriptive-analytical method, based on the study of 20 prose folk fictions and the extraction of some examples of them, is to examine their prose features. By studying these legends, we conclude that the characteristics that follow are common in all of them: simplicity of prose and its proximity to speech, being stereotype and same prose in various dialogues of characters, short sentences, Abundant application of phrasal sentences, folk vocabulary, interpretations and expressions, shifting of the sentence clauses, use of old stylistic elements, existence of linguistic mistakes and false linguistic applications, misuse of some of the concepts and words, changing of folk prose to literary and poetic Prose in some scenes, the abundant use of the ironies, proverbs, shape sentences, insults, threats, curses, oaths, prays, acknowledgments and admirations.

Keywords

• folk literature
• folk story
• aesthetics
• persian prose
• stylistics