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

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• Under the present account of implicit metaphor, which component remains expressly named?
• What is the unstated source image in “aẓfār al-maniyyah”?
• What is the most immediate rhetorical function of the “claws” in this phrase?
• In the account taught here, what chiefly defines imaginative metaphor?
• Which correctly distinguishes “death is like a predator” from “the claws of death”?
• What effect is reinforced by “anshabat” in the poetic image?
• How does “you will find every amulet useless” reinforce the first half of the verse?
• Why are implicit and imaginative metaphor treated as two aspects here?
• What is the target in the expression “lisān al-ḥāl”?
• What is the unstated source image behind “the tongue of circumstances”?
• What contrast shapes the poem about thanking and complaining?
• What does the statement “there is no lexical majāz in the expression” mean in this account?
• How is “the claws of a predator” normally classified when said of a real animal?
• Why does merely saying “death is merciless” not necessarily reproduce the claws-of-death construction?
• What is the principal issue on which the technical explanations differ?
• What feature receives special attention in the account associated with al-Sakkākī?
• Which two acts are meant by “two mutually connected acts of the speaker”?
• Why are the implicit and imaginative components connected in this interpretation?
• In which two distinct functions may “claws” be considered?
• What follows from leaving the comparison source unnamed in implicit metaphor?
• Which principle correctly relates lexical senses and the full predication?
• Why mention claws after implicitly likening death to a predator?
• Why does “the tongue of circumstances” not require a literal bodily tongue?
• Which example best follows the basic implicit-metaphor structure?
• How do the contextual clue and the shared point of resemblance differ?
• If “asad” is used directly for a brave person, what is primarily borrowed?
• Why is it misleading, on the present account, to say that only the word “death” has a transferred sense?
• What chiefly distinguishes an earlier account from the account being developed?
• If “claws” retains its lexical sense while its predication to death is figurative, what type of distinction is at work?
• Which conclusion is supported by the ending of the death-and-claws verse?
• What qualifies the attribute in the imaginative-metaphor mechanism?
• Which is the soundest way to analyze an example in this chapter?
• In implicit metaphor, the comparison source must be named expressly.
• In “the claws of death,” death is the target and claws suggest an unstated predator.
• Under the present interpretation, every overt word must independently be a lexical metaphor.
• In “the tongue of circumstances,” a condition is mentally represented as a speaker.
• Al-Sakkākī and other rhetoricians may differ over the theoretical locus of borrowing while discussing the same wording.
• A physically impossible predication in rhetoric must always be an attempt to mislead the audience.