Ilm al-Badiʿ: The First Nine Semantic Rhetorical Devices
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- What primarily grounds semantic embellishments?
- Which sense is intended in tawriyah?
- What is wrong with reading jaraḥtum as bodily wounding here?
- What specifically distinguishes reinforced tawriyah?
- What is distinctive about iham?
- Which pair could support tawjih?
- What device appears in ayqazan wa-hum ruqud?
- What is juxtaposed in negative tibaq?
- How many contrasting pairs occur in the quoted verse?
- What marks the device of tadbij?
- How are two intentions linked in idmaj?
- What is the additional effect in istitibaʿ?
- What kinds of meanings does muraʿat al-nazir combine?
- A purposeful sequence cloud, rain, and lightning best illustrates what?
- What is special about a pronoun in istikhdam?
- What is the grammatical role of -hu in fa-l-yasumhu?
- What is the final defining stage of istitrad?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes idmaj from istitrad?
- Which combination is characteristic of iftinan?
- What chiefly separates iftinan from istitrad?
- How are tibaq and muraʿat al-nazir distinguished?
- What does an implied generosity in alfazuhu min malihi illustrate?
- Why is accidental ambiguity insufficient for tawriyah?
- Simply attaching unrelated statements fails the requirement of which device?
- In tawriyah the near sense is apparent while the remote sense is intended.
- The possibility that lexical words are also names matters in tawjih.
- Negative tibaq always requires two different antonymous nouns.
- The essential relation in muraʿat al-nazir should be opposition.
- In istikhdam a pronoun can refer to a different sense of the earlier expression.
- Iftinan requires a return to the first theme just as istitrad does.