The Skill of Selection and Applying Words in Saadi's Speech

The study of word selection in speech of Saadi shows that central words in sentence or verse usually have influence over each other. Proportion, in general meaning, as a traction between words, is his main criterion in selecting a word from available possibilities. Even his stimulant in making use of ‘metaphor’, ‘simile’ and ‘compounds that have allusive meaning’, is regarding this proportion and harmony between words in the associative axis. In addition to subject of proportion, another important subject in selection of word in Saadi’s speech is his skill to avoid repetition a word at one meaning by using of lingual capacities. In this paper, first, the subject of synonym and some other capacities such as ‘metaphor’, ‘trope’, ‘changing the grammatical form of a word’ and ‘Arabic equivalent of words’ which Saadi has used them to avoid repetition of word, will be considered. In the following, we study the proportion and harmony in his words.