abstract:‎ literature is said beautiful words of poetry or prose that excites reader’s or listener’s feel. certainly, to ‎be effective, such a text should have certain characteristics. the four elements of the literature: thought, ‎imagination, emotion and style make a text to be literary and effective. emotion and imagination are ‎specific elements of literary texts, while thought and style a...

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...

The Quran includes numerous verses that refer to the eternity of the people of the Heaven and the Hell. It speaks of a group of blissful people who reside in the Heaven forever and enjoy its blessings and another group of miserable people who are doomed be punished. There is disagreement among commentators and theologians over what eternity is and whether there is a difference between the etern...

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

What is meant by anfal in Quran, its ownership and the abrogation of anfal verse is a position of disagreement between Shiite and Sunni`s commentators. As is clearly understood by the first verse of chapter Anfal, anfal has been known as one of the great financial sources for Islamic government. Some commentators have viewed the verse to be in contradiction with the verse of khums and, therefor...