LOCATION OF FIGURATIVE WORDS IN TANĀSUB

In Balāgha tanāsub is a literary art in which because of an intellectualcause or a property in its quality, the related words which have meaningconcerns -except opposites- come together in the same passage. In otherwords it is an associative field that is created by the unity which comprisesof words that can be correlated formally or semantically; or it is a lexicalfield that consists of words and expressions which is connected to sametheme. In text analysis the vocabulary that constitutes the tanāsub isdetermined according to correlation harmony of vocabularies on account oftheir real meanings. However in several texts, some words take part in anassociative field by their contextual figurative meanings not with their realmeanings. It is a problematic matter whether those words are involved in the tanāsub or not. However due to the meaning comes together with the tanāsub as a metaphore; it does not mean it cannot be involved the vocabulary which constitutes the tanāsub. Because the meaning -especially in poetic language- emerges according to the context. In this paper the location of figurative words in the tanāsub is evaluated with reference to samples of tanāsub has been extracted from literary texts.