Purposes of Simile: Possibility, Condition, Degree, Beautification, Disfigurement and Reversal
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- What is the principal aim of bayān al-imkān?
- What objection does “musk is part of the gazelle’s blood” answer?
- How does showing possibility differ from proving occurrence?
- If the audience does not know a cloth’s colour at all, why compare it with black cloth?
- If blackness is known but its intensity is unknown, which purpose applies?
- Why compare fruitless labour with writing on water?
- What should characterise the comparator in the four explanatory purposes?
- What is the intended effect of tashwīh?
- What is the main purpose of istiṭrāf?
- What chiefly motivates likening burning coals to a musk sea with golden waves?
- What is mental rarity in an unusual simile?
- What is rhetorically inverted in reversed simile?
- Why can “Dawn shines like his face” function as reversal?
- Why is treating reversed simile as a scientific claim mistaken?
- A hungry person likens a face to bread. Which purpose is most evident?
- What chiefly distinguishes reversed simile from preoccupation?
- How may one best express two equals sharing a quality without privileging either?
- When may a simile still be used between equally similar things?
- What does ghurrat al-faras principally mean?
- What is shown by the contrast of ʿalimtu and ḥasibtu in lion comparisons?
- What chiefly determines whether a comparison serves degree or disparagement?
- Which of the initial four aims reinforces a known condition?
- Why is a familiar comparator especially useful?
- Why is the purpose distinct from the point of resemblance?
- What is the principal difference between tazyīn and tashwīh?
- When the poet intends equality alone, what may be best avoided?
- Which question is most helpful when identifying a simile’s purpose?
- An analogy for possibility does not independently prove that the event happened.
- Every comparison involving blackness must be disparagement, even when it only measures degree.
- Istitrāf may involve a rare mental connection between otherwise familiar things.
- Exchanging the positions of two nouns always makes a successful reversed simile.
- A comparator may disclose the speaker’s special concern or urgent need.
- A one-directional simile can never be used between two equals for a special rhetorical purpose.