فعلان من أفعال المتكلم متلازمان
They are two mutually connected acts of the speaker.
The first act is to conceive one thing as resembling another without openly naming the comparison. The second act is to ascribe to the target a characteristic belonging especially to the source.
The acts are linked: claws assigned to death would be arbitrary without an underlying predator comparison, and the implied comparison is made recognizable by the accompanying attribute. Yet the conceptual distinction remains: withholding a comparison and asserting an imagined feature are not simply two labels for the same operation.