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Iranain folk stories can be checked from different viewpoints. Despite their title of "folk" that somehow, can be considered as no high level and fine texts, they are not entirely devoid of literary and artificial values and aesthetic aspects. These stories have been quoted in crowded circles and their writers or narrators, in addition to the characteristics like entertainment, variety of characters and events, humor and a happy ending, have had enough emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of their tales to attract their audiences and keeping them interested in their narrations to the end. Some of these tales are combination of top and folk styles and especially in the passionate, decisive and heroic moments or emotional scenes, the writers or narrators have been tried to show their more aesthetic powers and literary enthusiasm in their narrations. Thus from an aesthetic point of view, we can find several samples and examples of rhetoric in them. This article tries to find rhetorical aspects of the seventeen Iranian famous folk stories and analyze them to show their literary values.