Ījāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and Equivalence
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- What is the correct criterion for musāwāh?
- Why are ījāz and iṭnāb considered relative?
- What is serious loss of essential meaning through excessive brevity?
- Which term best fits a clearly identifiable useless insertion?
- What distinguishes ījāz al-qaṣr from ījāz al-ḥadhf?
- What type of concision is illustrated by “In qiṣāṣ there is life”?
- What is conventionally understood in “Ask the town”?
- Why omit the response to law in “If you could see when they stand before the Fire”?
- What must support a defensible analysis of ellipsis?
- What principally explains the narrative omission before fanfajarat?
- Which evidence is crucial to understanding “Carrion is prohibited to you”?
- What makes extra wording qualify as purposeful iṭnāb?
- What rhetorical technique is illustrated by “My Lord, expand my breast”?
- Which technique names two qualities and then specifies both?
- Why name the middle prayer after the prayers generally?
- What technique chiefly intensifies “You shall know; then you shall know”?
- What is added effect at the end of a poetic line called?
- Why add “falsehood is bound to vanish” after announcing its defeat?
- What chiefly distinguishes tadhyīl from repetition?
- What is the chief purpose of iḥtirās?
- How does tatmīm differ from iḥtirās?
- What device inserts subḥānahu into the surrounding statement?
- What is a sound way to identify iʿtirāḍ?
- What gives “He is not questioned about what He does” its breadth?
- How should a passage containing both ellipsis and purposeful expansion be analysed?
- What does “additional” mean in purposeful iṭnāb?
- Why should a proposed ellipsis reconstruction be distinguished from the original quotation?
- Which response is closest to a complete rhetorical analysis?
- Every short sentence is necessarily a case of rhetorical ellipsis.
- Mentioning a specific member after a general class can be useful without excluding it from that class.
- Both tadhyīl and repetition may emphasize, but they do not always operate in the same way.
- Before identifying a clause as iʿtirāḍ, one should examine its position and purpose.