صَفَّقَتِ الْقَاعَةُ لِلْخَطِيبِ.
The hall applauded the speaker.
If al-qāʿah denotes the people seated in the hall rather than the building, the place names its occupants. The relation is location, not similarity, making this an example of majāz mursal.
Both metaphors and metonymies depart from literal wording; the crucial distinction is the relation that licenses the transferred sense.
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Practice 1: Supplementary Advanced Balāghah: Applied Context, Structure and Figures
صَفَّقَتِ الْقَاعَةُ لِلْخَطِيبِ.
The hall applauded the speaker.
If al-qāʿah denotes the people seated in the hall rather than the building, the place names its occupants. The relation is location, not similarity, making this an example of majāz mursal.
Both metaphors and metonymies depart from literal wording; the crucial distinction is the relation that licenses the transferred sense.