If compound figurative expression is defined solely as speech transferred by a relation of resemblance, it may exclude cases where an entire declarative construction is deployed for complaint, prayer, regret, or another purpose rather than ordinary reporting.
The objection is that nonliteral uses of a sentence need not all be metaphors, since their governing connection may arise from pragmatic setting and communicative intent rather than likeness between two pictured situations.
It is therefore useful to distinguish compound majāz as a broad category from representative metaphor as its resemblance-based form. The distinction prevents one from assigning the same semantic relation to every altered use of a complete utterance.