Supplementary Practice 27 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Shams and Sūrat al-Layl
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- How do the two surahs differ in their argumentative movement after the oaths?
- What distinguishes the first wāw from the succeeding wāws in the oath sequence?
- What is the role of day/night contrast in 91:3–4?
- What does idhā chiefly add to these oath phrases?
- Which two grammatical readings of mā in wa-mā banāhā are recognized?
- What is a sound inference from the indefiniteness of nafsin?
- How does the opposition fujūrahā/taqwāhā prepare the argument?
- In the common analysis, where does the answer to the al-Shams oaths occur?
- Under the alternative omitted-oath-response analysis, how is qad aflaha viewed?
- What common rhetorical feature links the pairs aflaha/khāba and zakkāhā/dassāhā?
- What is the effect of introducing Thamūd after the general moral principle?
- Which reading best explains the accusative nāqata Allāh in 91:13?
- What is emphasized by successive fā in 91:14?
- How should mā in wa-mā khalaqa al-dhakara wa-l-unthā be treated?
- What is the function of inna saʿyakum la-shattā?
- What discourse movement begins with fa-ammā after the assertion of diverse striving?
- Why does the response to ammā begin with fā in fa-sa-nuyassiruhu?
- Which element explicitly marks futurity in fa-sa-nuyassiruhu li-l-yusrā?
- Why are the paired verbs in the two ammā passages rhetorically effective?
- Where is the decisive semantic contrast in the repeated fa-sa-nuyassiruhu phrases?
- What is the normal grammatical force of mā in wa-mā yughnī ʿanhu māluhu?
- Which features contribute to emphasis in inna ʿalaynā la-l-hudā?
- How should the preposed lanā be treated in 92:13?
- What is achieved by nāran with the qualifier talaẓẓā?
- Which formal device expresses restriction in lā yaṣlāhā illā al-ashqā?
- What is the verbal form and rhetorical effect of sa-yujannabuhā al-atqā?
- What is the force of min in mā li-aḥadin ʿindahu min niʿmatin?
- Which account of illā ibtighāʾa wajhi rabbihi is academically careful?
- What is the combined effect of the lām and sawfa in wa-la-sawfa yarḍā?
- Which comparison accurately connects the emphatic assertions in 91:9 and 92:4?