Taxis, or mora’atal-nazir, did not occupy a considerable position in rhetorical books until the fifth century after hijra. Radouyani introduced it for the first time, and then, another rhetorician elaborated on this figure and, gradually, the termbecame established in rhetoric. There are traces of this term in earlier descriptions of other tropes such as i’etelaf, taqsim, and moghabeleh. This article, drawing on Islamic rhetoric, gives a more nuanced definition of this term. Reviewing the history of mora’atal-nazirshows that this trope shapes a chain of semantic relation between different parts of speech. A similar relation, under the category of ‘alagheh,can be found in different forms of figurative language. I have also studied different functions of this trope and how we can evaluate it.

Keywords: rhetoric, mora’atal-nazir, bayan, badi’e

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