النصّ — المعنى — القرينة — الحكم — الأثر
Text, meaning, indicator, conclusion and effect.
Read the entire utterance before separating conventional from intended meaning. Next, isolate the particular word, syntactic relation, phonetic configuration, or contextual indicator that functions as evidence. Only then select the technical category and explain its expressive gain.
Simply announcing “this is a metaphor” does not suffice. In the lion example, “asad” designates a brave person, while “yarmī” blocks reference to the literal beast; these observations begin a reasoned classification.