Persuasion through Rhetorical Method in Lines of Wisdom by (Karim Al-Iraqi)

Abstract

This research aims to study the rhetorical images in the verses of wisdom by the poet Karim Al Iraqi, to reveal their persuasive and artistic content. Through the eloquence and significance of these methods, we discern the persuasive aspect of the poet's eloquent constructions. There is no doubt that persuasion is one of the most prominent goals a speaker seeks to achieve through his or her speech. It has been a vehicle for poets and speakers in their discourses, with the aim of influencing the recipient and swaying them to make a decision, adopt a specific stance, take an action, or otherwise conform to the speaker's opinion. This can only be achieved by resorting to a communicative plan called the persuasion strategy, which relies on a variety of rhetorical and grammatical methods and structures. This research examines the techniques of simile and metaphor (both implied and metonymic), which give poetic words a renewed, argumentative syntactic energy. These techniques enrich the semantic structure with additional, intended connotations and artistic values not found in conventional linguistic performance or familiar language. Thus, language becomes a means of suggestion, not merely a tool for conveying meanings.