Definitions of Literal and Figurative Use and the Technical Divisions of Metaphor
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- What distinguishes actual assignment from interpretive extension?
- Why can “asad” refer to a human preacher in the example?
- Why must the convention of discourse be identified first?
- What is the criterion for ṣalāh being literal for ritual prayer in a religious discourse?
- How should a condition explicit in one definition and implicit in another be assessed?
- What is the function of “al-jawād” in the sentence?
- What relation may arise when ṣalāh is used only for supplication in a religious technical context?
- What is the correct assessment of saying “Take this horse” while pointing to a book?
- What distinguishes the contextual clue from the figurative relation?
- Which example is a coherent metaphor rather than a mere misnaming?
- What is the principal distinction between metonymy and metaphor?
- When “there is a lion in the bathhouse” refers to a brave man, which side is overt?
- How is the comparison source recovered in “the claws of death”?
- What question controls the distinction between explicit and implicit metaphor?
- What does the taḥqīqiyyah/takhyīliyyah distinction examine?
- What is the intelligible intended concept illustrated by “Guide us to the straight path”?
- What exactly is imagined in the “claws of death” example?
- Which statement correctly describes illustrative metaphor and single-word figurative use?
- Why is extending the definition of one subdivision to all figurative speech mistaken?
- What should be clarified when reading al-Sakkākī’s division of linguistic metaphor?
- Why should “kalimah” in the quoted verse not automatically equal the grammatical technical term?
- How should the point of resemblance in the fire-kindling simile be analyzed?
- Which classification best fits an overt target with an unstated source evoked by an attribute?
- Which claim about “the claws of death” is incorrect?
- What follows if a nonliteral term appears without an intelligible figurative relation?
- Which description comes closest to a realizable metaphor?
- What is the first step in the four-stage analysis?
- What goes wrong when two different classificatory criteria are treated as one exclusive list?
- One word-form can have different conventional senses in different discourse communities.
- Every wrong word accompanied by a gesture is valid figurative speech.
- An explicit metaphor can overtly state the comparison source.
- In “the claws of death,” the predator and claws are literally bodily features of death.
- An illustrative metaphor can transfer a configuration or entire scene.
- Realizable/imagined and explicit/implicit metaphor use identical criteria.