The Creative Imagery in the Proverbs of Books of Witticisms and Anecdotes

Abstract

The Arabic language is distinguished by its abundant literary production, represented by poetry and prose. Despite the abundance of its poetic production, we cannot deny the ability of this great language to produce prose texts that have the characteristics of beauty, what distinguishes them from other texts, and among those texts that Proven beauty and stability over time are proverbs.

Proverbs have been linked to the beautiful, which was considered one of the most ancient rhetorical arts. Writers of all kinds used it in poetry and prose, and the wonderful good deeds were divided into two parts, some of which were verbal and some were moral. Rhetorical scholars paid great attention to the beautiful illustration, and they elaborated on it, so they specialized in They have exquisite illustration by improving and beautifying speech. It was like jewelry used for decoration, so we find that whoever neglects these improvements has lost a large part of the beauty and elegance of the text