OPINIONS ON THE DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF RHYMED PROSE (SADJH) ACCORDING TO SOME RHETORIC BOOKS / BAZI BEL GAT K TAPLARINA G RE SEC N N TANIM VE TASN F üZER NE Dü üNCELER

In addition to its peculiarity of being the euphony representing the prose rhymes at the end of sentences or phrases in prose texts as a literature term, rhymed prose (sadjh) is among the most important style elements of our prose, which is also called as Prose of the Classical School, Classical Turkish Prose or Esthetic Prose. The purpose of this study is to make an assessment by scanning and classifying the definitions and examples of rhymed prose (sadjh) in our rhetoric books. For this, we have scanned fourteen rhetoric books, mainly written in Ottoman Administrative Reforms period and thereafter, and made effort to make an assessment through the comparison of definitions, examples, and classifications regarding the rhymed prose (sadjh).