Illustrative metaphor (tamthīl) may represent one complex configuration through another. Its rhetorical force can depend on an entire pattern of circumstances rather than the transference of one isolated noun.
One objection is that a narrow identification of realizable metaphor with single-word figurative transfer might wrongly exclude such illustrative cases. The reply first asks whether a statement classifies one subdivision or defines all metaphor whatsoever.
Mistaking the boundary of a subdivision for the boundary of the whole subject creates a technical contradiction that may not actually exist.