Survey and comparison of storytelling in Samak e Ayyar with three folk tales

This study tries to investigate storytelling manner in Samak – e – Ayyar in comparison with three other folk tales entitled (Darabnameh,Abou moslemnaeh Eskandarnameh e naghali).To achieve this goal and according to Chapman, the rate of narrator participation in Samak -e –Ayyar story besides some special stylistic features in this genre ( language , colloquial atmosphere , irony and humor) have been analyzed and compared with other stories. The results show that presence and participation of narrator while describing the place, temporal conciseness and person descriptions in Samak – e – Ayyar and Darab Nameh are more prominent in comparison with the other works. Also, participation manner of storyteller in Samak – e – Ayyar , primary templatic propositions , inter textual templatic propositions differ from Aboumoslemnameh and Eskandarnameh naghali. It is important however to say that the manner of Darab Nameh is to some extent placed between that of Samak -e –Ayyar Aboumoslemnameh and Eskandarnameh naghali.