What does the statement “there is no lexical majāz in the expression” mean in this account?

Implicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Definitions, Core Examples, and Analysis

• Lexical metaphor is excluded in every kind of metaphor
• The individual words keep their senses while the predication is imaginative
• “Claws” must refer to an actual predator in the poem
• This account excludes mental predication from rhetoric