Course Main Objective
To introduce students to tools of figures of speech through studying domains of the science of figures of speech including simile, figurative expression, metaphor, metonymy; to taste the most significant rhetoric and aesthetic secrets of such arts through analyzing rhetoric texts and intensive application which achieve the required skills.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
- 1.1 Define the science of figures of speech and its arts and domains.
- 2. Skills
- 2.1 Analyze the different figures of speech and their attributes to unveil their aesthetic secrets.
- 2.2 Use communication technology in performing assignments and analyzing texts figuratively and further communicating via the available electronic means of communication.
- 3. Values
- 3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships in preparing the figurative works and assignments.
- 3.2 Observe scientific integrity and ethics as a responsible citizen upon performing exams and figurative assignments.
Course Content
This course covers the following topics:
1. Introducing eloquence and rhetoric and the conditions of each one.
2. Rhetoric flexibility in building speech according to situations.
3. Distinction between the three branches of rhetoric and domain of each on and how to distinguish rhetoric speech.
4. The concept of the Science of Figures of Speech and its limits, origin, outputs and function.
1. Effect of the science of figures of speech on the concerned idea clearly and aesthetically.
2. Distinction between original meanings and secondary and extra meanings.
3. Presumptions and their role in generating second meaning from the first one, denotation of an utterance on its own and its denotation in the context.
4. Domains of the science of figures of speech and the relation between the science of figures of speech and the semantics and rhetoric
5. Terms related to the terms of science of figures of speech such as depiction, embodiment and personification and others.
First- Simile: its concept and elements.
1. What should be mentioned from elements of simile and what may be omitted in light of rules and fundamentals of rhetoric speech.
2. Tools of simile and their usages in different contexts.
3. Types of simile according to the used tool.
4. Classification of both parties of simile concerning sensual perception or rational perception, or concerning singularity or compounding or multiplicity and regarding materialization or imagination and regarding being represented or unrepresented through studying rhetoric texts.
5. Classification of the event of simile concerning sensual perception or rational perception, or concerning singularity or compounding or multiplicity and regarding materialization or imagination and regarding being represented or unrepresented through studying rhetoric texts.
6. Type of simile in each of the above-mentioned simile and difference between both.
7. Analyzing different and several figures of simile where the subject of comparison is one object.
8. Rewording different phrases to make simile figures in their own meaning.
9. The rhetoric purposes of simile and distinguish what is referred to the subject of comparison and what is referred to the object of comparison.
10. Simile figures in rhetoric texts and analyzing them, simile figure where the object of the comparison include a tale.
11. Rewording different phrases to make simile figures in their own meaning.
12. The profound psychological dimensions in the comparison between the subject and the object of simile which exceeded the sensual and rational aspects of simile events.
Second- (synecdoche): its concept and both types
1. Synecdoche: definition, relations, presumptions, analyzing different figures in rhetoric texts.
2. Metaphor: definition, relation in the metaphor, metaphor presumption.
3. How to make the metaphor, relation of simile with metaphor, how to differentiate between the confirmative simile and the metaphor.
4. Types of metaphor and how to differentiate among each other.
5. Imaginative steps that precede comparing the subject to the object of comparison.
6. Equilibrium between synecdoche and the complicated synecdoche through analyzing rhetoric texts.
7. Difference between synecdoche and metaphor through analyzing rhetoric texts.
8. Employing the metaphor in a figurative or functional texts and diversity in using different forms of metaphors from one age to another.
Third: Metonymy:
1. Relation between spoken utterance and denoted meaning in metonymy.
2. Difference between metonymy and synecdoche
3. Classification of metonymy regarding closeness and farness of the actual meaning and the substituted meaning.
4. Favorite situations for using explicit metonymy and the contrary and reasons beyond such preference
5. Rhetoric secrets of metonymy in a number of figurative texts and attributes of metonymy.
6. Analyzing figures of multiple and various metonymies on one meaning. (for example, metonymy of regret in the Munificent Quran).
7. Distinction between the aesthetic effect of metonymy and the aesthetic effect of metaphor and peculiarity of employing each one.
Fourth- Allusion: its concept, difference between allusion and metonymy
1. Contexts of allusion and difference between being expressed in this chapter and in the chapter on the restriction style.
2. The rhetoric secrets implied in using different disciplines of the science of figures of speech.
3. Some figurative usages within social milieu and wording them in eloquent language and rhetoric styles.
Transforming some figures of speech into other figures.
Textbook (s)
- Fueid, Basuoni, Abdel Fattah. The Science of Figures of Speech: An Analytical Study on Matters of Figures of Speech. Al-Mokhtar for Publishing, Cairo., Dar Al-Maalem Al-Thaqafiya, Ihsaa, 4th ed. 1436H-2015AD.
Course ID: ARAB 204
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
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