LessonsImplicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Definitions, Core Examples, and AnalysisQuiz

The treatment identifies several technical accounts of the same example:
An earlier account: the borrowed source designation is understood mentally, while attribution of an associated feature supplies the imaginative element.
Al-Sakkākī's account: an imagined or notional form is treated as belonging to the target, and associated terms are analyzed through that conceived form.
The account being developed here: the unspoken simile itself is implicit metaphor; attributing the source-specific property is the imaginative metaphor.

The same poetic expression can therefore receive different classifications depending on whether the focus is a word, an imagined form, or a mental act of assertion.

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

The treatment identifies several technical accounts of the same example:
An earlier account: the borrowed source designation is understood mentally, while attribution of an associated feature supplies the imaginative element.
Al-Sakkākī's account: an imagined or notional form is treated as belonging to the target, and associated terms are analyzed through that conceived form.
The account being developed here: the unspoken simile itself is implicit metaphor; attributing the source-specific property is the imaginative metaphor.

The same poetic expression can therefore receive different classifications depending on whether the focus is a word, an imagined form, or a mental act of assertion.