Multiple Points of Resemblance, Ironic Contrast and Simile Markers
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- What chiefly marks multiple intellectual points of resemblance?
- What type combines beauty of appearance with elevated standing?
- What separates mixed multiple points from exclusively intellectual multiple points?
- If each shared quality can stand independently, which structure is most likely?
- Why can calling a coward “lion” become ironic?
- What is the practical distinction between tamlīḥ and tahakkum?
- What determines the meaning of “He is Ḥātim” applied to a known miser?
- Which statement about opposition-based simile is accurate?
- What is the primary role of kāf in «زَيْدٌ كَالْأَسَدِ»?
- What is «زَيْدًا» in «كَأَنَّ زَيْدًا أَسَدٌ»?
- What is the grammatical status of «أَسَدٌ» in that sentence?
- What additional function may kaʾanna have?
- What does a comparison marker not necessarily identify?
- How can mithl and shibh differ grammatically from the prefixed kāf?
- Compared with «زَيْدٌ كَالْأَسَدِ», what is absent from «زَيْدٌ أَسَدٌ»?
- What distinguishes omission of the marker from omission of the point?
- What does the kāf immediately precede in «أَوْ كَصَيِّبٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ»?
- Why must the entire image be considered in the worldly-life-and-rain comparison?
- Why may the noun after kāf not exhaust the comparison image?
- How best to distinguish conjectural kaʾanna from its simile function?
- Which expression contains an explicit comparative kāf?
- What most clearly supports an ironic reading of “He is Ḥātim”?
- Which approach best analyses a rhetorical comparison?
- What is the structure when Zayd and Amr are compared in knowledge, forbearance and generosity?
- A mixed multiple point can contain both sensory and intellectual qualities.
- Tamlīḥ and tahakkum always have exactly the same purpose.
- In «كَأَنَّ زَيْدًا أَسَدٌ», asadun is the predicate of kaʾanna.
- Whenever an explicit marker appears, the point of resemblance must also be stated.
- In “like water We sent down,” the larger image develops through the following words.
- No simile is possible unless the word mithl overtly follows the comparison term.