Supplementary Applied Practice — Maʿānī, Bayān and Badīʿ

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• What does “Hal Zaydun ḥāḍirun?” principally do?
• Why can “Inna akhāka qādimun” suit a hesitant listener?
• What rhetorical purpose does “Rabbanā lā tuʾākhidhnā” convey despite its prohibitive form?
• What is the rhetorical force of “Alaysa Allāhu bi-aḥkami al-ḥākimīn”?
• How do “Layta al-shabāba yaʿūdu” and “Laʿalla al-marīḍa yashfā” differ?
• When can answering “Zayd” to “Who is the winner?” be eloquent?
• What is the main rhetorical effect of fronting “iyyāka” in “iyyāka naʿbudu”?
• What necessarily follows from “jāʾa rajulun”?
• Which construction expresses restriction in “mā kataba al-maqāla illā Zayd”?
• If a second sentence explains the first, which arrangement may be preferable?
• Which kind of concise expression is illustrated by “wa-lakum fī al-qiṣāṣi ḥayāh”?
• What distinguishes effective iṭnāb from mere verbosity?
• What is the shared quality in “Zayd ka-l-asadi fī al-shajāʿah”?
• How is “Zayd is like a lion” classified when the particle is expressed but the shared quality is omitted?
• What kind of shared quality defines a representative (tamthīl) simile?
• If “raʾaytu asadan yakhṭubu” means a brave man, which device is it?
• What type of metaphor is illustrated by the wing of humility in “wakhfiḍ lahumā janāḥ al-dhull”?
• If “the river flows” means that its water flows, what is the relation?
• If workers physically built the palace, where does the figurative use lie in “the ruler built the palace”?
• What is primarily implied by “kathīr al-ramād” when it refers to generosity?
• What is decisive for identifying ṭibāq?
• Which relation between the near and distant meanings defines tawriyah?
• What must match in perfect jinās?
• What does the recurrence of miṣbāḥ across the clauses illustrate?
• A denying listener always requires at least three emphatic particles.
• “Akhūka ka-l-asadi fī al-shajāʿah” explicitly states both the particle and the shared quality.
• Logical metaphor necessarily requires changing the lexical meaning of a noun.
• In kināyah the literal meaning may remain possible in principle.
• Jinās and sajʿ are merely two names for one device.
• One expression can be analyzed separately through maʿānī, bayān and badīʿ.