What rhetorical effect does the incorporation “kalamḥ al-baṣar aw huwa aqrab” achieve?

Iqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating Poetry

• Identifying the new incident as the Hour itself
• Expressing the new event’s extreme speed through a familiar formula
• Taking an unfamiliar hemistich without a cue
• Making every Qur’anic word a metonymy