«فَلِسَانُ حَالِي بِالشِّكَايَةِ أَنْطَقُ»
“The tongue of my condition speaks complaint more eloquently.”
The speaker’s condition is pictured as though it possessed the means of human speech. No physical tongue of a condition is meant; the visible state itself communicates what words may not express.
This resembles the claws-of-death example structurally, but its intended effect differs: the earlier example dramatizes force, while this one makes unspoken testimony vivid.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
«فَلِسَانُ حَالِي بِالشِّكَايَةِ أَنْطَقُ»
“The tongue of my condition speaks complaint more eloquently.”
The speaker’s condition is pictured as though it possessed the means of human speech. No physical tongue of a condition is meant; the visible state itself communicates what words may not express.
This resembles the claws-of-death example structurally, but its intended effect differs: the earlier example dramatizes force, while this one makes unspoken testimony vivid.