Kināyah: Definition, Implication, Literal Meaning, and Its Difference from Majāz
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- Which two conditions are central to the definition of kināyah?
- What does “maʿa jawāz irādatihi maʿahu” mean?
- What is implied by “ṭawīl al-nijād”?
- What is nijād in the example?
- If a person has no sword, how does that affect the use of “ṭawīl al-nijād”?
- What is conveyed by “jabān al-kalb”?
- What is inferred from the lean calf in “mahzūl al-faṣīl”?
- What is the central difference concerning literal meaning?
- Why is “asad” for a brave speaker not kināyah in “I saw a lion preach”?
- How best to distinguish “he is generous” from “his dog is timid”?
- What supplies rhetorical emphasis in the allusive account of “laysa ka-mithlihi shayʾ”?
- What is the key difference between the two accounts of the verse?
- What happens if the relation between the sign and intended meaning is unknown?
- Must the connection in kināyah always be strictly logical?
- How is the direction of inference in kināyah conventionally stated?
- What relation connects ghayth to vegetation in the majāz example?
- How do “lion” for a brave person and “rain” for vegetation differ?
- Why is inference direction alone an imperfect distinction?
- What most helps distinguish literal from allusive use of the same phrase?
- How does permissibility of literal sense differ from its actual truth?
- If a camel calf is thin from illness, what does that show about the allusion?
- Why need a statement about a dog’s timidity not be kināyah?
- What is the objective of the allusive analysis of “laysa ka-mithlihi shayʾ”?
- Which condition is more central to effective kināyah?
- Which expression is a textbook instance of kināyah?
- What kind of contextual indicator is decisive for majāz rather than kināyah?
- Which statement best summarizes the definition of kināyah?
- The literal length of the strap may in principle be intended in “ṭawīl al-nijād.”
- Kināyah requires the literal sense to be excluded in every use.
- “Jabān al-kalb” uses a conventional link between frequent visitors and hospitality.
- Lion-for-brave-man and rain-for-vegetation both use the same resemblance relation.
- Rhetoricians discuss objections to distinguishing kināyah and majāz solely by the direction of inference.