Metonymy, Compound Figurative Expression and Mental Attribution
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- What chiefly distinguishes majaz mursal?
- If yad means a favor in this phrase, what is the relation?
- If rain is intended by nabatan, which relation applies?
- How do sababiyya and musabbabiyya differ?
- Why are spies called eyes in this example?
- Naming fingers but intending fingertips illustrates:
- What separates eyes-for-spies from fingers-for-tips?
- The former designation yatama illustrates:
- Why are grapes described as khamr in this passage?
- How do the former-state and future-state relations differ?
- Council standing for its members is an instance of:
- Mercy standing for Paradise illustrates:
- What is the direction in mahalliyya?
- What identifies haliyya?
- Why is qarina important even when a relation exists?
- Where is the figurative operation in majaz murakkab?
- What is the principal rhetorical aim of the caravan-longing imagery?
- What relation underlies representative metaphor?
- Why is not every compound majaz a tamthili metaphor?
- What is the chief locus of majaz aqli?
- What is the grammatical role of karru in the quoted clause?
- What grammatical role does al-saghira have?
- How does lexical majaz differ from majaz aqli?
- Classify “eyes for spies” against “time made the young gray.”
- Majaz mursal operates through a relation other than resemblance.
- Eyes standing for spies is kulliyya.
- Using “wine” for grapes invokes a future designation.
- Mahalliyya and haliyya name and intend the same sides of the relation.
- In majaz aqli, words may remain literal while attribution is figurative.
- Every long or compound sentence is necessarily a representative metaphor.