Supplementary Master Practicum: Rhetorical Criticism, Revision and Justified Interpretation

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• What principally changes when the explicit simile becomes “Zayd is a lion”?
• What risk follows deleting “yarmī” from the lion expression?
• Which effect is reduced by replacing “long sword-strap” with “tall”?
• If simplification removes a metaphorical picture, what is the first question?
• What is lost by replacing the claws-of-death image with “death came”?
• Why is reducing the composite comparison to swords and stars incomplete?
• What is chiefly weakened by deleting one of two opposite pairs?
• What changes when the sun/lion/sea attributes are reordered as splendor/courage/generosity?
• Must every unordered distribution be revised into ordered distribution?
• Why are two dictionary senses alone insufficient to create tawriyah?
• What should a translation of the “two eyes alike” expression preserve?
• What may be lost by changing the question to a declarative statement?
• What is the literary effect of replacing an imagined cause with a factual one?
• What follows “except” in the notched-swords praise?
• What is missing when the exception-based praise becomes simply “they are brave”?
• What is most relevant for identifying ghulūw?
• If identical-looking expressions also mean exactly the same thing, what fails for jinās?
• What happens if the second “sāʿah” is replaced by “laḥẓah”?
• What matters more than phonetic resemblance in proving ishtiqāq?
• What is the most relevant position for establishing sajʿ?
• If terminal words match in pattern but not rhyme, which device is more likely?
• What is the likely key consequence of changing one letter in “kullun fī falak”?
• What should first be checked if the final “takhshāhu” is replaced?
• Shared generic subject matter alone is insufficient to prove what?
• How should “more eloquent” and “appropriated” be assessed?
• What kind of error is attributing Qurʾānic wording to a poet?
• What is the literary incorporation of another poet’s line called?
• What is the direction of transformation in ʿaqd?
• What is the rendering of verse into prose called?
• What might be lost by expanding an allusion into the complete story?
• An attractive but unrelated opening does not prove which device?
• What is not automatically proved by writing “ammā baʿd”?
• What is most likely harmed by opening an unrelated issue in the conclusion?
• What is the best verdict if an edit preserves sense but removes jinās?
• What is appropriate if two figures both apply to one passage?
• What four independent checks govern an editorial critique?
• If the figure is correctly named but the quotation mistranslated, what follows?
• When the literal sense remains possible but an implication is intended, what is the first category to test?
• If no relevant beginning–ending verbal correspondence is shown, which claim is weakened?
• What is the sound next step when a quotation’s attribution is uncertain?
• If an edit removes the decisive clue while shortening a sentence, what verdict is justified?
• If translation eliminates one of two viable readings, what should analysis note?
• An unusual expression is necessarily defective in rhetorical criticism.
• In “Zayd is a lion,” the presence of both comparison terms matters despite omission of the marker.
• Deleting “yarmī” necessarily preserves the same clarity of metaphorical indication.
• Unordered distribution is not necessarily less eloquent than ordered distribution in every context.
• It is acceptable to misattribute scriptural wording as poetry to establish taḍmīn.
• An edit may preserve meaning yet destroy the verbal pattern of jinās.
• Using “ammā baʿd” alone fulfills all requirements of graceful thematic transition.
• Device identification, translation, attribution, and literary value are separately assessable.
• An imaginative cause in ḥusn al-taʿlīl should always be tested as a literal scientific claim.
• Qalb mustawī must be tested against the reversible sequence of actual Arabic letters.