وليس في الكلام مجاز لغوي
There is no lexical majāz in this expression.
This conclusion does not deny all rhetoric or imagery in the passage. It describes a specific analysis: “death” and “claws” retain their individually assigned senses, while an unreal physical attribution joins the two in the speaker's imaginative portrayal.
Lexical majāz ordinarily involves using a word beyond the sense assigned to it. Under this approach, the central shift lies instead in implicit comparison and predication. Competing explanations differ over whether the borrowed feature itself should count as a transferred word.