Familiar and Distinctive Metaphor: Obvious Resemblance and Artful Rarity
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- What is the key criterion for this division by the common feature?
- What does ʿāmmiyyah mubtadhalah mean?
- What connects the lion and human archer?
- What excludes the literal-lion interpretation?
- Which statement about khāṣṣiyyah gharībah is correct?
- How many principal routes to rarity are discussed here?
- What is the original context of iḥtibāʾ?
- What does qarabūs refer to in this image?
- What does ʿinān mean?
- What chiefly accounts for the rarity of the horse metaphor?
- Which reading misconstrues the horse illustration?
- What plural of abṭaḥ appears in the travel verse?
- What is the apparent subject of sālat in the verse?
- What ordinary resemblance underlies the travel verse?
- What chiefly creates rarity in the caravan verse?
- Why is the mention of camel necks apt?
- To what is blazing attributed in the Qur’anic expression?
- What image is intended by the Qur’anic expression?
- What technique links the valley and head expressions?
- What is necessary for the second route to distinctiveness?
- Which distinct classification must not be conflated with familiar/unusual?
- Which statement is correct?
- In the horse example, what is transferred to what?
- Why is it incorrect to say sālat is grammatically attributed to the camels?
- What is the first step in analyzing an unusual metaphor?
- What is the principal contrast between the two textbook illustrations?
- Why does “He is a lion on the battlefield” tend to be commonplace?
- If a novel metaphor is incoherent and unsupported by context, is rarity sufficient?
- In a commonplace metaphor, the shared feature is generally easy to recognize.
- A distinctive metaphor necessarily contains an unknown Arabic word.
- The horse verse likens the saddle-and-rein arrangement to human iḥtibāʾ.
- The travel verse is rare only because water flows fast.
- Attributing blazing to the head portrays the spread of gray hair.
- Being a distinctive metaphor guarantees aptness in every context.