Practice 3: Advanced Rhetorical Diagnosis: Correcting Faulty Analyses and Evaluating Arabic Prose

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• What does the demonstrative in “hādhā al-jawāb ṣaḥīḥ” establish with certainty?
• If a listener withholds assent after hearing a report, which conclusion follows?
• What must be true of the listener merely because “inna” appears?
• What principally supports a rebuke reading of “Will you abandon work so near the deadline?”
• Which inference from “not all students attended” is justified?
• What is denied by “lam yaḥḍur ayyu ṭālib”?
• Which statement necessarily follows from “only the diligent succeed”?
• When is a qalb (reversal) reading of “I seek only reform” well supported?
• Which assertion about “There is a man in the house” is unwarranted?
• What is the principal discourse effect of the paired “ammā” clauses?
• Why can “Khālidun” serve as a meaningful reply to “Who attended?”
• Why is separation suitable in “Khalid is trustworthy. He does not betray trusts”?
• Which reading of “wa” in “Khalid is truthful and trustworthy” is sound?
• What supports an explanatory resumption in the traveller example?
• Why is “Knowledge is light” commonly analysed as tashbīh balīgh?
• If “a lion addressing people” means a brave human orator, which figure is prominent?
• What makes an implicit-metaphor reading of “morning smiled” plausible?
• When may “the ruler built the school” exemplify rational metaphor?
• What kind of relation operates when “I drank the cup” means its contents?
• What supports interpreting “clean-handed” as an allusion to honesty?
• When praise of fidelity is said before someone who broke a promise, what extra function may arise?
• What is the essential distinction between ṭibāq and muqābalah?
• Why is complete jinas unjustified for “al-ʿālim” and “ʿilmihi”?
• When is the second clause a genuine safeguard (iḥtirās)?
• Why may the second sentence be treated as tadhyīl?
• How should added verbal ornament be judged if it obscures the original meaning?
• What does “only one student came” not disclose?
• How should a critic decide whether “opening a door to knowledge” is figurative?
• What is the most defensible initial analysis of “A tall man arrived”?
• Which comparison of the two assertions about a clear error is justified?
• In the mentor passage, whose usefulness does the second statement deny?
• What cues a personifying reading of “I saw the book calling its reader”?
• What prior idea strengthens an implicit denial in “Can reading without effect suffice?”
• What development is signalled by “I understood the lesson, but I will put it into practice”?
• Which sequence best represents a disciplined integrated analysis?
• If two rhetorical readings appear possible, how should they be assessed?
• If a rhetorical device is identified correctly but its communicative purpose is omitted, what is missing?