Foregrounding in Surah Noor From a Formalist Point of View

Foregrounding is one of the most important topics in Russian formalism. This school examines the literary work according to the harmony and fit between form and content and analyzes the reasons for the beauty of the text in terms of literature and art. In this article, an attempt has been made to analyze Surah Noor by foregrounding method. It is worth mentioning that foregrounding is divided into two branches of parallelism and deviation. Types of deviation include: phonetic, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and textural. Each of these types examines the verses of the Surah in a precise, literary, and in-depth manner and determines the lexical and literary highlights and beauties of the Surah. These aspects that make the language more distinct and stand out are called foregrounding, which by this definition includes de-familiarization and highlighting. The research method is formalist criticism and its aim is to find the salient features of Surah Noor and analyze them based on the concepts of highlighting. The result of the research is that the concept of foregrounding has been used a lot and with excellent placement.