LessonsClassification of Simile by Its Two Terms: Sensory, Intellectual, Imagined, and SupposedQuiz

An imagined composite (khayālī) may have constituents individually known by sense although their particular arrangement has no external existence. Imagination can combine, separate, and rearrange previously encountered forms.

Banners, spears, and precious stones are individually sensible; poetry can arrange them into a striking scene that has never occurred exactly as pictured.

The lack of external existence of the whole does not automatically make the figure purely intellectual. Its imagined configuration is built from sensed constituents, a distinction important to this classification.

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Imagined composites formed from sensed elements

Classification of Simile by Its Two Terms: Sensory, Intellectual, Imagined, and Supposed

An imagined composite (khayālī) may have constituents individually known by sense although their particular arrangement has no external existence. Imagination can combine, separate, and rearrange previously encountered forms.

Banners, spears, and precious stones are individually sensible; poetry can arrange them into a striking scene that has never occurred exactly as pictured.

The lack of external existence of the whole does not automatically make the figure purely intellectual. Its imagined configuration is built from sensed constituents, a distinction important to this classification.