Compound Rhetorical Structures and Their Application to Poetical Names for Eulogy

The structures and forms used in Persian literature have shown to be increasingly complicated, since their very beginning up to now. One of the major ways of the formation of new structures has been producing the novel compound structures, but as in the books on rhetoric, the figures have traditionally been studied out of their contexts, it has not been possible to trace out the creative mechanisms in the back of them. This article, while emphasizing the necessity of studying the tradition of working on compound rhetorical structures, examines their application to poetical names for eulogy through introducing examples.