LessonsMultiple Points of Resemblance, Ironic Contrast and Simile MarkersQuiz

Case 1: “He is Ḥātim,” said of a person known to be miserly: the word evokes generosity, while context turns the utterance into derision.
Case 2: “He resembles the sun in a beautiful appearance and elevated status”: the first quality is sensory, the second intellectual, yielding mixed multiple points.
Case 3: «كَأَنَّ زَيْدًا أَسَدٌ»: kaʾanna is the marker; Zayd is its accusative subject and lion its nominative predicate. Context may supply courage as the point.
Case 4: In the worldly-life-and-rain verse, the word water introduces a fuller comparison completed by the scene of vegetation and decline.

In each case proceed from wording to intended meaning, then the point or contextual clue, and finally the rhetorical effect.

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Multiple Points of Resemblance, Ironic Contrast and Simile Markers

Case 1: “He is Ḥātim,” said of a person known to be miserly: the word evokes generosity, while context turns the utterance into derision.
Case 2: “He resembles the sun in a beautiful appearance and elevated status”: the first quality is sensory, the second intellectual, yielding mixed multiple points.
Case 3: «كَأَنَّ زَيْدًا أَسَدٌ»: kaʾanna is the marker; Zayd is its accusative subject and lion its nominative predicate. Context may supply courage as the point.
Case 4: In the worldly-life-and-rain verse, the word water introduces a fuller comparison completed by the scene of vegetation and decline.

In each case proceed from wording to intended meaning, then the point or contextual clue, and finally the rhetorical effect.