ابْتَسَمَ الصُّبْحُ لِلْقَرْيَةِ.
Morning smiled upon the village.
Morning is imaginatively assimilated to a smiling person; the person is unmentioned while the characteristic action is attributed to morning. In a common rhetorical account this is explained as implicit metaphor.
Classical treatments of implicit and imaginative metaphor are not terminologically identical. Advanced analysis should identify the adopted framework instead of treating one account as universally uncontested.
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Practice 3: Advanced Rhetorical Diagnosis: Correcting Faulty Analyses and Evaluating Arabic Prose
ابْتَسَمَ الصُّبْحُ لِلْقَرْيَةِ.
Morning smiled upon the village.
Morning is imaginatively assimilated to a smiling person; the person is unmentioned while the characteristic action is attributed to morning. In a common rhetorical account this is explained as implicit metaphor.
Classical treatments of implicit and imaginative metaphor are not terminologically identical. Advanced analysis should identify the adopted framework instead of treating one account as universally uncontested.