What principally distinguishes semantic from verbal embellishments?
Introduction to ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Ṭibāq and Muqābalah
- The first chiefly refines relations of meaning; the second chiefly works through wording
- The first contains no wording and the second no meaning
- Verbal always means antithesis; semantic always means rhyme
- Semantic embellishments occur only in prose