In “Banā l-amīru l-jisr,” if the ruler organized the project while laborers performed the construction, the act is attributed to an administrator or cause rather than the direct agents. That is a possible instance of rational or predicative figurative attribution (majāz ʿaqlī).
The key change lies not in the dictionary sense of “bridge” or “build” but in the relation between agent and action. If the ruler personally built the bridge, the same sentence could be literal. Context is decisive.
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Supplementary Practice — Advanced Rhetorical Analysis and Worked Texts
In “Banā l-amīru l-jisr,” if the ruler organized the project while laborers performed the construction, the act is attributed to an administrator or cause rather than the direct agents. That is a possible instance of rational or predicative figurative attribution (majāz ʿaqlī).
The key change lies not in the dictionary sense of “bridge” or “build” but in the relation between agent and action. If the ruler personally built the bridge, the same sentence could be literal. Context is decisive.