Semantic Embellishments II: Gathering, Differentiation, Division, Hyperbole, and Further Devices

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• Which device predicates a single judgment of several distinct things?
• What makes grouping youth, leisure, and wealth under “mafsadah” a rhetorical device?
• Two gifts share the same category, but the poet distinguishes their value. Which device is central?
• What is a central condition of taqsim?
• A poet exhaustively considers knowledge in past, present, and future. What is illustrated?
• Which feature identifies tayy wa-nashr?
• The night and day are followed by rest and seeking bounty. Which device is illustrated?
• What particularly characterizes irsal al-mathal?
• What is a heightened description that remains rationally and customarily possible?
• Which description correctly defines ighraq?
• Bows shooting arrows without an archer exemplifies which degree of hyperbole?
• What is the defining movement in mughayarah?
• In “no fault except their chipped swords,” what is the rhetorical result of the chips?
• “He has no good except giving alms from stolen wealth” uses which device?
• Why does tajrid imagine another exemplar emerging from a qualified person?
• In “li min fulanin sadiqun hamim,” what role does min play?
• Why does a poet address himself in tajrid without a particle?
• What is the nature of the cause in husn al-taʿlil?
• Attributing a constellation’s shape to its desire to serve illustrates what?
• What primarily determines harmony of diction and meaning?
• Several items are named and each later receives its own description. What is most prominent?
• Which analysis correctly identifies reinforcement of praise through apparent blame?
• What separates ighraq from ghuluw?
• If “even mountains trembled before his enemies” is understood as an impossible direct assertion, which hyperbole applies?
• Jamʿ and tafriq both necessarily have the same defining act of one shared predication.
• In tayy wa-nashr the later descriptions must meaningfully correspond to previously mentioned items.
• In tabligh the intensity is impossible both rationally and customarily.
• Reinforcement of blame by seeming praise suggests merit before revealing a further fault.
• Husn al-taʿlil always states the actual scientific or historical cause.
• In harmony of diction and meaning, suitability is judged relative to subject and occasion.