كَثِيرُ الرَّمَادِ إِذَا مَا شَتَا
He has abundant ashes when winter comes.
The literal statement concerns ashes, while its conventional implication is generosity and hospitality. Hosting guests leads to cooking, cooking to fire, and fire to ashes.
A kināyah works through an indirect chain of implications. The literal sense may remain possible, which distinguishes this analysis from a metonymy or metaphor that requires a prohibitive clue against the literal sense.
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Supplementary Practice — Integrated Grammatical and Rhetorical Analysis of Arabic Texts
كَثِيرُ الرَّمَادِ إِذَا مَا شَتَا
He has abundant ashes when winter comes.
The literal statement concerns ashes, while its conventional implication is generosity and hospitality. Hosting guests leads to cooking, cooking to fire, and fire to ashes.
A kināyah works through an indirect chain of implications. The literal sense may remain possible, which distinguishes this analysis from a metonymy or metaphor that requires a prohibitive clue against the literal sense.