Majaz and Istiara: Literal Meaning, Relationship, Contextual Evidence, and Types of Metaphor
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- What is the principal role of the preventing indicator in majaz?
- What is the relation when pearls stand for fine speech?
- Why does “fingers” refer to fingertips in the cited expression?
- What chiefly distinguishes istiara from majaz mursal?
- In the cited phrase, what does «النُّور» figuratively denote?
- What is the source model (musta ar minhu) in “darkness” for misguidance?
- Why is “darkness” for misguidance an explicit metaphor?
- Why is “the wing of humility” classified as implicit metaphor?
- What remains expressed in a typical implicit metaphor?
- Why is “darkness” for misguidance a primary metaphor?
- Which is a typical locus of derivative metaphor?
- What is the rhetorical force of «رَكِبَ» in “rode another’s shoulders”?
- What relation is transferred in «عَلَى هُدًى»?
- Which side is supported by added detail in a reinforced metaphor?
- How does “their trade did not profit” relate to the prior metaphor of purchase?
- To which side do added words relate in stripped metaphor?
- Which detail marks tajrid in the “garment of hunger and fear” example?
- What correctly characterizes an unqualified metaphor?
- Which source image supports the metaphor in “breaking a covenant”?
- How do the two pairs of metaphor classifications differ?
- Can one metaphor be both explicit and primary?
- What is true about contextual evidence in an unqualified metaphor?
- Which example has a whole-for-part rather than resemblance relation?
- Which sequence best supports a technical metaphor analysis?
- Every figurative use is necessarily a metaphor.
- In implicit metaphor the comparison model may be suppressed while one of its features is shown.
- Derivative metaphor can occur only in underived nouns.
- Reinforced metaphor adds features appropriate to the comparison model.
- Unqualified metaphor needs no preventing contextual indicator.
- Darkness for misguidance can be classified both as explicit and as primary.