لَكَانَتِ الْأَعْلَامُ الْمَنْقُولَةُ اسْتِعَارَةً
Transferred proper names would then count as metaphors.
If metaphor were merely giving an entity a different expression, every newly adopted name or transferred proper name would become metaphorical. Yet naming a person “Asad” is not automatically the same rhetorical act as depicting a brave person as a lion.
A personal name may become established without conveying any immediate likeness in courage. A metaphor deliberately activates the lion's salient attribute to magnify a human quality. The intellectual account uses this difference to argue that a simple verbal substitution cannot explain all the force of metaphor.