Purposes, Classifications, and Rhetorical Degrees of Simile
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- What chiefly characterizes a composite respect of resemblance?
- What is central to comparing lightning with an object repeatedly opening and closing?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes multiple traits from multiple separate similes?
- What is the comparison marker in «كَأَنَّ زَيْدًا أَسَدٌ»?
- What is the main aim of a simile used to demonstrate possibility?
- How do explaining a condition and explaining its degree differ?
- What is the role of a vivid comparison in confirming a condition?
- What is the likely aim of likening an action to a repellent scene?
- What is needed for an effective surprising simile?
- What is the effect of reversing the usual comparison between a bright face and dawn?
- Which feature best identifies an implicit simile?
- How should multiple rhetorical aims in one simile be assessed?
- What is meant by a single term in the structural classification of similes?
- Which arrangement characterizes a grouped (malfūf) simile?
- How does mafrūq differ from malfūf?
- What is the structure of tashbīh al-jamʿ?
- Which pattern defines tashbīh al-taswiyah?
- What most reliably identifies tamthīl?
- Why is brightness alone insufficient in the dust-and-swords image?
- Why is “Zayd is like a lion in courage” detailed (mufaṣṣal)?
- Why can “Zayd is like a lion” be mujmal?
- What matters when a summary simile has a concealed respect?
- What distinguishes an unusual remote simile from an obvious familiar one?
- What does the condition about stars not setting achieve in the verse on resolve?
- What is a mursal simile?
- What structural feature makes a simile muʾakkad?
- Which is the familiar structure of tashbīh balīgh?
- How may “Zayd is a lion” differ from “I saw a lion on the battlefield”?
- Why can a simile be both mursal and mujmal?
- Which example most naturally serves the aim of embellishment?
- Which approach best establishes the rhetorical purpose of a simile?
- What is the central question of the following chapter, al-ḥaqīqah wa-l-majāz?
- One simile can be both tamthīl and mursal.
- A reversed simile always establishes literal identity between its terms.
- A simile becomes meaningless whenever its respect is unstated.
- Every remote and unusual simile must be more eloquent than every familiar one.