Compound majāz concerns the application of an entire construction beyond its ordinary setting. Its important resemblance-based form is representative metaphor, where the pattern of one complete scene describes another. “You advance one foot and draw the other back” represents indecision by this mechanism.
The category also raises a broader issue: a formally declarative utterance can express longing or another non-reporting purpose, and such use need not always be reduced to simile-based metaphor.
The established saying “You wasted the milk in summer” illustrates how a proverb retains recognizable wording while being applied to new circumstances. The following independent chapter concerns metaphor by implication and imaginative metaphor.