A study of Obaid Zakani's satirical tricks

The type of humor as a literary genre has always been present in the literature of this land with intensity and weakness for a long time. Humor is a critical writing that is mixed with the nectar of delicacy, that is, a humorist who cleverly and consciously expresses his protest in an artistic and beautiful way that makes the audience laugh, not a laugh of enthusiasm, but a bitter and biting laugh. In fact, humor is an evolved form of satire. This means that criticism became public insteed of personal, and also defended the right of society instead of defending individual rights. obaid zakani is one of humor who uses various techniques to create different types of humor. in this article, we have tried to examine them.

the present research has been done by the method of theoretical study and using library sources. Our study area and community is the generalities of obaid zakani, edited by Abbas lqbal Ashtiani and the efforts of parviz Atabaki, published by zavar publications.

Humorous poets and writers each deal in an almost ordinary way, but obaid zakani himself is the creator of various methods of satireeach deal in an almost ordinary way, but obaid zakani himself is the creator of various methods of satire. Sometimes in prose and sometimes in poetry, sometimes in the form of jokes and sometimes in the style of a humorous letter of advice, sometimes he invents humorous words, sometimes he interprets words in a humorous way. Characterization is also one of his tricks, sometimes he uses historical characters as his humor and sometimes fictional characters. He sometimes chooses animals as the characters of his stories. Obaid is so interested in expressing the facts and problems of his society that he does not hesitate to use vulgar words.

Obaid uses tricks such as the metaphor of Tahkmiyeh, janas, playing with words, exposing the horseshoe, inverting Persian and Arabic anecdotes, and humorous interpretation of common proverbs and humorous reasoning.