Art and its rhetorical function in the Quran

The aim of the function of the literary images is to express the goals, effects and results of the artistic images in Quranic verses. The effects and functions of the artistic images in Quranic verses are investigable with more extensive dimensions of these images to express the religious ideas which are the main and constant guiding axis of the prophets in the history of mankind. The function of this purpose can be seen by using Quranic similes, metaphors, and ironies and using the kind of letters, the arrangement of the words and the syntax rules of the phrases in the various verses. The function of using the literary techniques for imaging the verses is to elucidate, explain, emphasize and to be expressive the meanings and ideas that are fully related with the context of the phrases and the images of these ideas and its meanings can be observed through the coherent relationships of the verses.