The conditions of excellence are not identified by one surface feature across all forms. Their underlying likeness, transferred meaning, and means of representation must be considered separately.
FormPrimary test of excellence
RealizedAppropriate shared quality and avoidance of overt simile
RepresentationalFitness of the two complete scenes and achievement of purpose
ImplicitAppropriate hidden comparison and its associated feature
ImaginativeFitness of the supporting image and the implicit metaphor it accompanies
This classification shows why identifying a technical label is not enough: evaluation requires examining whether the actual image performs its intended rhetorical task well.