Ellipsis as a Narrative Discourse Style in Some Narrative Suras in The Holly Quran

Abstract

This paper is concerned with investigating the miraculous style of ellipsis in some narrative Suras in the Glorious Quran . Ellipsis is handled here as a narrative discourse technique which is of crucial importance in narrating the stories in the Holly Quran due to many important reasons such as brevity , irrelevance , honoring , etc. The researcher aims at finding out narrative ellipsis in three narrative Suras in the Holly Quran . It is not dealt with grammatically as in many previous studies which point out its types as eliding the particle , noun , verb , or a sentence , etc. But it is mainly concerned with omitting a period of time from the sequence of events in narration due to some reasons as brevity ,create suspense, irrelevance , honoring , degradation , etc. Readers of narrative discourses can anticipate the full meaning of such ellipted discourses through inference and through their background knowledge of these narratives which help them to portray a situation model for each narrative discourse .