Local Similes in South and North Iranian Fiction

Nature, climate and ecological, social and cultural conditions of each writer or poet’s place of living are the main origins of the imagery in his (or her) work and no poet or writer can take himself completely far from their influences. On the basis of this, climate has been considered more or less by most rhetoricians and they have emphasized it for the correct analysis and interpretation of a literary work. Also authentic literary works can be studied in this regard and a brief look at outstanding literary works shows that the purest images in poetry and even prose genres are those originated from and inspired by poet or writer’s climate and environment of living. Simile is one of the main kinds of imagery and somehow can be considered as the base of rhetoric which is used for distinguishing literature from non-literature. Generally speaking, other kinds of imagery are based on and influenced by it. Like other kinds of imagery, and in some respects more than them, simile is affected by climate so that in literary text analysis we face a plenty of similes which can be named as natural similes due to their tenor and vehicle. In this article, after some descriptions of regional and local literature, local fiction and local simile, types of local simile in regional fictions are studied and compared.