بَلَاغَةُ الْكَلَامِ فِي مُوَافَقَتِهِ لِلْمَقَامِ.
Effective rhetoric lies in matching expression to its communicative situation.
A useful critical method asks five questions: What does the wording necessarily mean? What is the setting? Which grammatical and rhetorical features are actually present? Which extra conclusions require evidence? What effect is appropriate to the intended audience?
When several analyses are possible, a competent student states the evidence for each, corrects unwarranted inferences and explains a reasoned preference. This is the goal of critical Balāghah rather than rote identification.