Literal and Figurative Usage: Metonymy and Types of Metaphor

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• Why is the speech convention crucial when identifying literal usage?
• What is ṣalāh used for the specified worship in legal-religious discourse?
• Which two elements are central to valid figurative usage?
• In “The lion gave a speech,” what is the main function of the speech reference?
• If “lion” designates a courageous person, what is the relation?
• What distinguishes majāz mursal?
• If “fingers” refers to fingertips in this verse, what relation is involved?
• If “the whole town came out” means its residents, which relation applies?
• What does calling recipients by a former condition in “Give orphans their property” illustrate?
• What principally distinguishes a valid trope from misuse?
• What is the key first question when distinguishing metonymy from metaphor?
• In “He is a lion,” what is the metaphor’s target referent if a brave person is meant?
• What does rhetorical identification mean in realized metaphor?
• What is the main rhetorical difference between “like a lion” and “is a lion”?
• What makes “the situation spoke” a derivative metaphor?
• Which feature distinguishes primary nominal from derivative metaphor?
• Which example transfers a sensory image to a conceptual target?
• What tangible action is evoked by “We strip the day from it”?
• What does the word “glad tidings” accomplish when paired with painful punishment?
• What determines whether the common respect of a metaphor is sensory or conceptual?
• What principally identifies reinforced metaphor (murashshaḥah)?
• To which side does the qualifying expression belong in mujarradah metaphor?
• What does “unqualified metaphor” NOT mean?
• Why does “their trade did not profit” reinforce the metaphor of “purchasing error”?
• How does a contextual indicator differ from tarshīḥ?
• In a metaphor using “lion” for a soldier who speaks, what is the likely resemblance?
• Which analytical sequence is most appropriate for studying figurative usage?
• Why is a metaphor in a verb classified as derivative?
• If the relation were part–whole rather than similarity, which classification should be avoided?
• Which statement about tarshīḥ is more accurate?
• Any word used outside its lexical sense must be an error rather than a trope.
• Majāz mursal is founded on a relation other than resemblance.
• The mustaʿār lahu is the target for which the borrowed expression is used.
• An unqualified metaphor lacks any contextual indicator.
• In “the situation spoke,” metaphor lies only in the noun “situation,” not in the verb.
• Murashshaḥah adds source-related details that reinforce the borrowed image.