Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
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- What chiefly distinguishes representative metaphor?
- What does the two-feet image chiefly suggest?
- Why is not every multiword Arabic expression a representative metaphor?
- What separates representative metaphor from representative simile?
- What is typically left unexpressed in implicit metaphor?
- What is the role of “claws” in “Death sinks in its claws”?
- In “death’s claws,” what concerns imaginative metaphor?
- What makes “the tongue of my condition speaks” effective?
- What is conveyed by the horses and mounts of youth?
- What question best assists analysis of actual versus imaginative metaphor?
- Why is the literal sense of the subject raised as an objection to implicit metaphor?
- How do “death is like a predator” and “death sank its claws” differ?
- What is the role of context in a successful metaphor?
- Which criterion matters for an effective metaphor?
- What does a lingering “trace of simile” indicate?
- What may the broader grammatical use of majāz concern?
- What is a central distinguishing feature of kināyah?
- What quality is suggested by “ṭawīl al-nijād”?
- Does kināyah fail if the sword-strap is actually long?
- What governs the threefold classification of kināyah?
- What is the target of the upright being with broad nails?
- What distinguishes near from remote kināyah?
- Which association helps “much ash” suggest generosity?
- Why is “much ash” not a strict universal proof of hospitality?
- What is intended in kināyah of attribution?
- Why are generosity and nobility placed in Ibn al-Ḥashraj’s pavilion?
- What is achieved by placing honor “between his two garments”?
- What is especially important for identifying taʿrīḍ?
- What may “You harmed me; you will come to know” imply in context?
- Which account of talwīḥ and ramz is more accurate?
- What is a useful distinction between kināyah and taʿrīḍ?
- The honor-and-generosity between garments example illustrates which type?
- Which rhetorical discipline follows ʿilm al-bayān in the textbook?
- What is required to classify “I saw a lion”?
- In representative metaphor, a complete scene may be applied to a comparable situation.
- Implicit metaphor always explicitly names the vehicle.
- Kināyah can intend an associated meaning while leaving the literal sense possible.
- “Much ash” signals hospitality without any customary inferential step.