LessonsMajaz and Istiara: Literal Meaning, Relationship, Contextual Evidence, and Types of MetaphorQuiz

In «جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ», the expressed subject is humility, the comparison model is an unspoken bird, and the wing is a distinctive feature of that model.

The mere appearance of the word “wing” does not make the principal metaphor explicit. The modeled creature itself is concealed; therefore the governing metaphor is implicit, and the wing is the feature through which that comparison is imagined.

A common error is to overlook the suppressed model and classify the sentence from a single conspicuous word alone.

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The implied bird and its characteristic

Majaz and Istiara: Literal Meaning, Relationship, Contextual Evidence, and Types of Metaphor

In «جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ», the expressed subject is humility, the comparison model is an unspoken bird, and the wing is a distinctive feature of that model.

The mere appearance of the word “wing” does not make the principal metaphor explicit. The modeled creature itself is concealed; therefore the governing metaphor is implicit, and the wing is the feature through which that comparison is imagined.

A common error is to overlook the suppressed model and classify the sentence from a single conspicuous word alone.