LessonsClassifying Metaphor by Its Terms and Common Feature: Concordance, Opposition and InclusionQuiz

والأظهر أن الطيران أقوى منه في العدو
The feature appears more forcefully in flying than in running.

A challenge arises: if rapid traversal links the activities, must their speed be equal? Equality of degree is not necessary. The model may exhibit the feature more strongly, giving the transferred description its rhetorical emphasis.

One must distinguish the meaning of a property from its degree. Both activities can include rapid movement while one realizes it more intensely. Conceptual inclusion of a shared feature is therefore not equivalent to identical intensity of that feature.

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The objection: flight is faster than running

Classifying Metaphor by Its Terms and Common Feature: Concordance, Opposition and Inclusion

والأظهر أن الطيران أقوى منه في العدو
The feature appears more forcefully in flying than in running.

A challenge arises: if rapid traversal links the activities, must their speed be equal? Equality of degree is not necessary. The model may exhibit the feature more strongly, giving the transferred description its rhetorical emphasis.

One must distinguish the meaning of a property from its degree. Both activities can include rapid movement while one realizes it more intensely. Conceptual inclusion of a shared feature is therefore not equivalent to identical intensity of that feature.