Features of Artistic Imagery in the Holy Quran

Image refers to a series of possibilities of artistic expression in poetry and its main realm contains simile, metaphor, metonymy, symbol and different ways of expressing mental images. Religious texts are special kinds of literary texts which make use of special forms, skills and poetic language. The Holy Quran as a literary text makes use of mechanisms of literary language to express its content. Among these mechanisms is image.The present paper studies the features of artistic imagery in the Holy Quran.