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Take this horse.
Suppose someone says this while pointing to a book. “Faras” conventionally denotes a horse, while the gesture points to the book. Nonliteral reference plus an external indication should not, by themselves, be sufficient to call the expression a rhetorical trope.
Intention and error must be distinguished. If the speaker meant to say “book” and accidentally uttered “horse,” the expression is a slip, not a successful figurative transfer.
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Definitions of Literal and Figurative Use and the Technical Divisions of Metaphor
خذ هذا الفرس
Take this horse.
Suppose someone says this while pointing to a book. “Faras” conventionally denotes a horse, while the gesture points to the book. Nonliteral reference plus an external indication should not, by themselves, be sufficient to call the expression a rhetorical trope.
Intention and error must be distinguished. If the speaker meant to say “book” and accidentally uttered “horse,” the expression is a slip, not a successful figurative transfer.