LessonsSupplementary Integrated Rhetoric Workshop: Text Analysis, Stylistic Revision and Worked ApplicationsQuiz

رَأَيْتُ أَسَدًا يَرْمِي
I saw a lion shooting arrows.

Model response: “Lion” is not intended as an animal because “shooting arrows” supplies a human-action clue. The borrowed lion stands for a courageous person: an explicit metaphor. The image intensifies the sense of bravery.

A nearby wrong alternative is emphatic simile, because the human subject of comparison is not expressly present. A plain constructed revision “I saw a brave man” communicates the sense directly but loses the metaphorical picture.

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Case 29: Writing a complete analytical answer

Supplementary Integrated Rhetoric Workshop: Text Analysis, Stylistic Revision and Worked Applications

رَأَيْتُ أَسَدًا يَرْمِي
I saw a lion shooting arrows.

Model response: “Lion” is not intended as an animal because “shooting arrows” supplies a human-action clue. The borrowed lion stands for a courageous person: an explicit metaphor. The image intensifies the sense of bravery.

A nearby wrong alternative is emphatic simile, because the human subject of comparison is not expressly present. A plain constructed revision “I saw a brave man” communicates the sense directly but loses the metaphorical picture.