Rhetorical Criticism and Speech-act in Non-Declarative Sentences (Sample Review: Stories of Moses in Rumi's Masnavi)

Essential sentences are one of the important topics in Rhetorical figures are divided into demand and non-demanding. non-declarative sentences include propositions of command and prohibition, question, wish, and prayer. According to the threefold principle; Appropriate to the audience and his position and the purpose of the author, sometimes non-declarative sentences deviate from their grammatical appearance and the meaning of their meaningrhetorical function- becomes striking. By examining the cognitive meaning of these propositions, hidden layers of language can be discovered. Because conversation is the key to communication, in this research, inventive sentences are analyzed in the dialogues and storytelling of Musa in Rumi's Masnavi. Rumi makes great use of the persuasive and mpathetic functions of language to achieve its goalpersuasion and motivation of the audience - through rhetoric and pulpit. Most examples of this persuasion are evidenced in command and call and question sentences.