An objection arises because the word al-maniyyah still denotes death in its ordinary sense: where, then, is the metaphorical transfer?
The answer distinguishes the literal reference of the noun from the figurative attribution of features belonging to the implied vehicle. The rhetorical operation is not exhausted by replacing a single word: it can consist in constructing an asserted imaginative relation.
Accordingly, one must ask whether “metaphor” is being used narrowly for lexical transfer or more broadly for the whole claimed comparison.