Introduction to ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Ṭibāq and Muqābalah
Read-only question overview. Answers and scoring remain inside authenticated learner attempts.
- What should be established before badīʿ embellishment is valued?
- What principally distinguishes semantic from verbal embellishments?
- Which is the best characterization of ṭibāq?
- How should fī al-jumlah in the definition of ṭibāq be read?
- Which relation produces ṭibāq in “You think them awake though they sleep”?
- Why is “He gives life and causes death” affirmative ṭibāq?
- What grounds the particle contrast in “for it / against it”?
- Which feature marks antithesis in “dead, then brought to life”?
- Which pair most clearly illustrates negative antithesis?
- Why is “they know ... they do not know” not necessarily a contradiction?
- How does “Do not fear people; fear Me” show negative ṭibāq?
- Why do “red” and “green” together not automatically make tadbīj?
- What does the red-to-green clothing image suggest?
- How are tawriyah and kināyah distinguished in the color discussion?
- Why can “firm against... merciful among” be attached to ṭibāq?
- What is the key rhetorical analysis of “grey hair laughed and he wept”?
- Why is “in order” central to the definition of muqābalah?
- How many principal pairings occur in “laugh little, weep much”?
- Which ordered grouping occurs in the religion-and-worldly-life verse?
- How should ittaqā and istaghnā be understood in the Sūrat al-Layl counterpoint?
- Which pair in the four-by-four example is a direct contrast?
- Must every connective particle have an antonym in muqābalah?
- What best distinguishes ṭibāq from muqābalah in this lesson?
- What caution follows from al-Sakkākī’s narrower formulation?
- What misconception should be avoided when reading “firm ... merciful”?
- Why is “knowledge and book” not automatically ṭibāq?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes tadbīj from muqābalah?
- Which semantic figure follows this unit in the textbook?
- Ṭibāq brings two opposed meanings into a connected discourse.
- Negative ṭibāq can never involve imperative and prohibition.
- The particles in “to its credit / against it” convey an opposition through context.
- Tadbīj requires each pair of colors to be dictionary antonyms.
- Muqābalah arranges the opposites of two or more meanings in corresponding order.
- In Sūrat al-Layl, ittaqā and istaghnā are strict lexical antonyms in every context.