«أَرْسَلْتُ الْعُيُونَ»
I sent spies.
Here the word “eyes” stands for people. This is lexical figurative reference.
«أَشَابَ الصَّغِيرَ كَرُّ الْغَدَاةِ»
The recurrence of morning made the young gray.
Here the rhetorical shift primarily concerns the attribution of a change to time. It is majaz aqli.
The two may both be figurative, but their analytical loci differ: a transferred referent versus a transferred predication.
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Metonymy, Compound Figurative Expression and Mental Attribution
«أَرْسَلْتُ الْعُيُونَ»
I sent spies.
Here the word “eyes” stands for people. This is lexical figurative reference.
«أَشَابَ الصَّغِيرَ كَرُّ الْغَدَاةِ»
The recurrence of morning made the young gray.
Here the rhetorical shift primarily concerns the attribution of a change to time. It is majaz aqli.
The two may both be figurative, but their analytical loci differ: a transferred referent versus a transferred predication.