Practice 1: Supplementary Advanced Balāghah: Applied Context, Structure and Figures

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• When “The guest has arrived” gives an uninformed listener new information, which function is present?
• Which situation best illustrates lāzim fāʾidat al-khabar?
• Why may inna suit a hesitant listener?
• What supports reading the question about neglecting duty as a reproach?
• What helps interpret an imperative as a plea or request?
• What does “No one won except Khālid” add to “Khālid won”?
• Which figure is marked by innamā in this example?
• What is the syntactic function of iyyāka in “I intend you”?
• When is qasr al-qalb the appropriate classification?
• Which analysis of the nominal sentence “The student is diligent” is most defensible?
• What comes first in “In the hall is a student”?
• What strengthens the contrastive exclusivity in “I seek truth, not praise”?
• What does fa primarily convey between the two clauses?
• How might the second clause relate to the first without wāw?
• Why might “The lesson ended. Did the message arrive?” remain separate?
• Why may “Every situation has its fitting expression” illustrate concision without ellipsis?
• What makes the ellipsis in “Where are the keys? — In the drawer” recoverable?
• What is the effect of “I advise three qualities: truthfulness, justice and mercy”?
• In “Knowledge is like light in guidance,” what is the common feature?
• What characterizes the shared feature in a representative simile?
• How is “The orator is a lion” best classified here?
• What cue drives the metaphorical reading of “A lion addressed the audience”?
• Which figure is suggested by “The morning smiled”?
• What licenses the metonymy “The hall applauded”?
• When can “So-and-so has clean hands” function as kināyah?
• Which figure dominates “Knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness”?
• What is the strongest approach to analysing the final composite example?
• An emphatic particle proves the factual truth of its proposition.
• Fronting the object in “I intend you” can convey attention or exclusivity depending on context.
• Effective ellipsis requires a clue enabling recovery of the omitted meaning.
• The meaning transfer in majāz mursal is always based on similarity.