Özet:

Literary texts based on narrative are formed by the succession of more than one event that exists within the framework of a certain subject in a way that complements each other in terms of meaning.These fragments of events, which are connected to each other by a cause-effect relationship, both make a sense on their own and have a meaning within the integrity of the text. Especially in folktale studies, these parts of the text that can be separated from each other are called as episode and it is seen that the episodes are generally common in many various stories. The masnavis, which are generally used to tell the stories of long-term adventures, have their own order and they are basically a narrative form that consist of three parts as introduction, the part where the main story is told, and the conclusion.In addition to this unique order, it is seen that the shape structure of the section in which the main story is told has commonality with different narrative genres such as epic, legend, fairy tale, and folk tale, and even in some parts, the parts that make up the story are largely similar to these genres. In this study, the episode structure of the Cem Sultan’s Cemşîd ü Hurşîd masnavi will be revealed and it will be tried to show through this example that masnavis, which is one of the traditional narrative forms, has common episodes with folk tales.