Acceptable Hyperbole: Tablīgh, Ighrāq, Ghulūw and Effective Imagery
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- What principally separates the three classes of hyperbole?
- Which condition defines tablīgh?
- What identifies ighrāq?
- What is true of a ghulūw claim?
- What follows from “what is customarily possible is rationally possible”?
- A horse capturing two prey in quick succession exemplifies which class?
- In the source, honour following a former neighbour everywhere illustrates what?
- Why is fear attributed to not-yet-created embryos ghulūw?
- How are ghulūw and rejected exaggeration related?
- What does yakādu contribute in “yakādu zaytuhā yuḍīʾu”?
- What is the role of “wa-law lam tamsashu nār”?
- Which device most directly approximates an extreme claim toward acceptability?
- What marks successful ḥusn al-takhyīl?
- What grounds the hoof-and-dust image?
- Why are intensifiers such as “very” insufficient for classification?
- Which comparison is correct?
- What does “accepted” chiefly mean in acceptable hyperbole?
- What is chiefly conveyed by linking stars and eyelashes in the long-night image?
- Even with yakādu, what determines rhetorical acceptance?
- How does actual occurrence differ from rational possibility?
- A claim rationally and customarily possible is classified as?
- Why assess imaginative merit separately in ghulūw?
- What should be identified first in analyzing a new hyperbolic verse?
- Which statement about hyperbole, tajrīd and simile is correct?
- Which section follows acceptable hyperbole in this text?
- What may be gained by framing an extravagant claim with law?
- Everything rationally possible is necessarily customarily possible.
- Tablīgh may be strongly emphatic while remaining rationally and customarily possible.
- Every instance of ghulūw is rejected regardless of imaginative coherence.
- “Yakādu zaytuhā yuḍīʾu” asserts actual occurrence exactly as a categorical statement would.
- In the hoof-and-dust image, actual movement underlies an imaginative construction.
- Classification and rhetorical merit always answer exactly the same question.