Supplementary Practice — Advanced Rhetorical Analysis and Worked Texts

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• A listener strongly denies Zayd’s presence. Which phrasing most deliberately answers strong denial?
• What is the primary role of the lām in “inna Zaydan la-qāʾimun”?
• What crucial distinction separates “mā ḥaḍara Khālidun” from “mā ḥaḍara illā Khālidun”?
• What is the grammatical position of iyyāka in “iyyāka naʿbudu”?
• Which sentence normally means “not all students attended” rather than “none attended”?
• After “Did you read the book?”, what identifies the unexpressed object in “Yes, I read”?
• Why can the conjunction wa be appropriate in “Khālid is diligent and Saʿīd is trustworthy”?
• What can justify separation in “Zayd is absent. He travelled yesterday”?
• What makes “wa-lakum fī l-qiṣāṣi ḥayāh” a strong example of compact expression?
• What can “he does not reproach recipients for his gifts” add after describing someone as generous?
• What rhetorical force may an imperative have when addressed as a request between equals?
• What is the principal rhetorical direction of “a-laysa llāhu bi-aḥkami l-ḥākimīn”?
• What can be achieved by using past tense for a future event regarded as certain?
• What identifies the point of resemblance in “the scholar is like a lamp in guidance”?
• Why is the scene of students around a teacher compared to stars around the moon a representational comparison?
• Why is the familiar model made the compared subject in reverse comparison?
• What most strongly indicates a human referent in “I saw a lion delivering a speech”?
• What supports an implicit-metaphor reading of “the morning smiled”?
• If “I drank a cup” means the drink inside it, what is the metonymic relation?
• When can “the ruler built the bridge” be majāz ʿaqlī?
• If “someone has abundant ashes” implies generosity, what type of expression is it?
• How can one distinguish “night and day” from “pen and notebook” as rhetorical pairs?
• Besides two lexical meanings, what is needed to establish tawriyah?
• Two prose clauses have corresponding end sounds but do not meet lexical criteria for jinās. Which device is more directly relevant?
• All fronting automatically means exclusivity regardless of context.
• “Zaydun asadun” can be analyzed as an emphatic comparison because both terms are expressed.
• Majāz ʿaqlī necessarily requires a transferred dictionary meaning.
• Kināyah can intend an associated implication while leaving the literal meaning possible.
• Two similar-sounding words anywhere in prose automatically establish sajʿ.
• Different aspects of one expression can be examined through maʿānī, bayān and badīʿ.