defamiliarization and foregrounding in the sura al-waghi’a

russian formalists made great changes in the literary critics in the 20th century putting forth subjects like defamiliarization and foregrounding. their purpose was to establish an independent science for studying literary works. however, they went to extremes so that they laid external factors aside and tried to find literariness solely in the text. although the holy quran is not a literary text, every verse and chapter has literary beauties, so that we can study it through different methods. the purpose of this article is to study the sura al-waghi'a from the formalist viewpoints of defamiliarization and foregrounding. this research shows that many of senses and natural phenomena which are ordinary for people, became strange and fore grounded by defamiliarization and over regularization via phonetic, verbal and syntactic parallelism.