“Hyperbole brings gratification to the epic genre. Exaggeration and contrast between the legend and reality attract the reader since he sees his wishes and desires in the mirror of the antagonist and sympathizes with the hero,” he added.
The reader becomes avid by Ferdowsi’s hyperboles in Shahnameh. In other words, hyperbole is a form of satire. In this way, the author maintains his distance from pure reality in order to create an artistic story imbued with his own witty nature, Ehterami mentioned.
“Unlike Hafez and Sadi who in their poetry, frequently depict the daily lives of people in a day-to-day setting, Ferdowsi rarely concerns himself with people’s daily lives in most parts of his magnum opus,” he added.
He went on to say that the parts that deal with daily life are mostly after the Rustam and Sohrab combat when the epic transforms into a report-like narrative that is not acknowledged as the prime epic portion by most readers.
Hyperbole that puts things in an unusual order leads to satire and in this way makes the work amusing, he concluded.
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