Why is it misleading, on the present account, to say that only the word “death” has a transferred sense?

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

• Because “death” retains its sense and the imaginative predication assigns it claws
• Because an explicit metaphor never names its source
• Because both “claws” and “death” are sources
• Because omitting the term “death” would complete the image