Quranic deviation: between aesthetic reception and stylistic function for metaphor metonymy in Surat El’Kahf

Abstract

is research paper aims to highlight aspects of excellence and uniqueness in one of the artistic aspects of the Holy Quran. Which is considered as one of the stylistic features of the speech of Allah where it concerns deviation. Specifically, one of the types of deviation, which is semantic deviation, is represented in
metaphor and metonymy, passing through phonetic deviation and lexical deviation. As well as deviation in structure or composition, reaching the subject of the study, which is the aesthetic reception of this deviation. Moreover, the extent to which it performs stylistic functions that may appear or be implied and inferred.Perhaps the most prominent achievement of this type of deviation is highlighting the uniqueness of the Quranic text. In addition, its monopolization of some metaphorical styles and figurative expressions to achieve absolute excellence in that linguistic fabric, and confirmed inimitability in everything it contains and encompasses.