Defining Majāz and Kināyah: Excluding Clues and the Transition to Simile

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• What shared basis do majāz and kināyah have?
• In the source phrase, what does “mā wuḍiʿa lah” designate?
• Which sorts of connected meaning are admitted by the account?
• In majāz, what does an excluding clue rule out?
• If “a lion is addressing the assembly” means a brave orator and excludes the animal, what is it?
• A word retains its dictionary sense but does not intend it in one utterance. What is distinguished?
• Against which condition is “otherwise it is kināyah” contrasted?
• When “long sword-strap” suggests tall stature yet could be literally true, which mode is illustrated?
• What does “permissibility” of literal intention in kināyah mean?
• Can a contextual clue direct the listener to the allusive sense in kināyah?
• What question most directly distinguishes majāz from kināyah?
• What is meant by “the meaning of majāz is the concomitant alone”?
• Which principle is conveyed by “a concomitant does not necessarily indicate its antecedent”?
• What is the initial rationale for discussing majāz before kināyah?
• What is the force of ka- in “ka-juzʾ maʿnāhā”?
• Which is the most precise account of kināyah?
• Why is kināyah not literally the sum “concomitant + antecedent”?
• How far is the part–whole analogy valid for majāz and kināyah?
• Why must simile be studied to understand istiʿārah?
• Which form is illustrated by “Zayd is brave like a lion”?
• What remains true when a metaphor arises from an underlying simile?
• Which major subjects of bayān are identified here?
• What is missing when an indirect expression is classified without checking literal possibility?
• Which statement about kināyah is incorrect?
• Kināyah can intend the concomitant while leaving literal intention possible.
• The excluding clue in majāz permanently removes the word’s original dictionary meaning.
• “As though part of its meaning” makes kināyah a literal composite of two mandatory meanings.
• Some instances of istiʿārah rest upon comparison, but not every explicit simile is an istiʿārah.
• A non-excluding clue can guide the intended meaning of a kināyah.