Purposes of Tashbih: Possibility, State, Degree, Reinforcement, Beautification, Disparagement and Inversion

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• What additional question is most important for identifying a simile’s rhetorical purpose?
• What is the primary purpose in the musk-and-gazelle-blood verse?
• Bayān al-imkān usually responds to which state of mind?
• What relationship links “you are one of them” and “musk is part of gazelle blood”?
• Which purpose is most appropriate if the listener does not know the subject’s state at all?
• What additional relation is conveyed by the stars in the ruler-and-sun comparison?
• What is already known in bayān miqdār al-ḥāl?
• Why is the dark raven’s feather mentioned in the source example?
• What does khāfiyah mean in this image?
• Showing the praised ruler’s relation to other rulers via the sun is an example of what?
• What is the central function of taqrīr al-ḥāl?
• What is the ground of the broken-glass/estranged-affection comparison?
• How should the broken-glass verse be understood rhetorically?
• What role does the model play in tazyīn?
• Why does comparison with the gazelle’s dark eye primarily exemplify beautification?
• What is the decisive contrast between the raven feather and gazelle eye examples?
• What effect does a model create in taqbīḥ?
• What is the dominant aim in “fa-kaʾannahu qirdun yuqahqihu”?
• What identifies tashbih maqlub?
• What is the expressed subject of comparison in the dawn–caliph verse?
• What is achieved by making the caliph’s face the standard in the inverted simile?
• Which sentence is the inverted comparison?
• What is the core difference between a simile’s purpose and its classification?
• Someone’s generosity is compared with rain. What is needed to fix the rhetorical purpose?
• Bayān al-imkān makes an exceptional claim conceivable through a familiar parallel.
• Bayān al-ḥāl and bayān miqdār al-ḥāl mean exactly the same thing.
• The glass comparison reinforces an abstract judgment through a tangible image.
• The gazelle-eye example primarily seeks to make the dark feature attractive.
• Any change of word order automatically creates the hyperbole of inverted simile.
• Taqbīḥ creates a negative impression, whereas tazyīn creates a positive one.