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

1. Sensory–sensory: Comparing a cheek with a rose; both can be seen.
2. Intellectual–intellectual: Comparing knowledge and life in the sense discussed here; both are grasped intellectually.
3. Sensory–intellectual: Comparing fragrance with a noble moral quality; one is perceived by a sense, the other intellectually.
4. Intellectual–sensory: Comparing death with a predator; death in the relevant respect is intellectual, while the predator is sensory.

The first term is mushabbah and the second is mushabbah bih. A simile may place a sensory and an intellectual term together; the classification simply records their differing kinds.

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The four combinations of the two terms

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

1. Sensory–sensory: Comparing a cheek with a rose; both can be seen.
2. Intellectual–intellectual: Comparing knowledge and life in the sense discussed here; both are grasped intellectually.
3. Sensory–intellectual: Comparing fragrance with a noble moral quality; one is perceived by a sense, the other intellectually.
4. Intellectual–sensory: Comparing death with a predator; death in the relevant respect is intellectual, while the predator is sensory.

The first term is mushabbah and the second is mushabbah bih. A simile may place a sensory and an intellectual term together; the classification simply records their differing kinds.