Tafrīʿ, Praise or Blame by Apparent Exception, Ist itbāʿ and Idmāj
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- What condition is essential for tafrīʿ?
- Why is «غلام زيد راكب وأبوه راكب» not necessarily tafrīʿ?
- What quality is principally praised in «أحلامكم لسقام الجهل شافية»?
- How does *kalab* function in the poetic tafrīʿ example?
- What is the effect of praising in the guise of blame?
- Which form is illustrated by «ولا عيب فيهم غير أن سيوفهم...»?
- How do the sword nicks imply bravery?
- Why is the apparent exception effective in the first form?
- What does the exception add in «هو البدر إلا أنه البحر زاخراً»?
- What distinguishes the two forms of emphatic praise?
- What rhetorical role does *lākin* play in the moon-and-rain comparison?
- Why is a plain list of virtues not automatically emphatic praise in the guise of blame?
- What identifies emphatic blame in the guise of praise?
- Which mode is illustrated by “No good in him except that he mistreats his benefactor”?
- What happens in «فلان فاسق إلا أنه جاهل»?
- How do the two forms of emphatic blame differ?
- How is the second praise connected to the first in istitbāʿ?
- What is primarily praised in «نهبت من الأعمار ... لهنت الدنيا»?
- What is the secondary praise in that poem?
- How does «لو» contribute to the institution of praise in the poem?
- Why is “He is just and brave” not necessarily istitbāʿ?
- What may the primary aim be in idmāj?
- What is the defining feature of idmāj?
- What is the primary aim in «أقلب فيه أجفاني»?
- What secondary purpose is embedded in the eyelid image?
- What primarily distinguishes istitbāʿ from idmāj?
- Why is “She is the sun, except that she is a sea” best classified as emphatic praise?
- Which distinction between tafrīʿ and istitbāʿ is most accurate?
- Why is an exception particle alone insufficient to identify these figures?
- What do the two passages share despite their opposite effects?
- How is the secondary meaning conveyed in the eyelid example?
- Which pair of figures may coexist in the nicked-swords example?
- Simply asserting the same predicate of two related names always constitutes tafrīʿ.
- In «ولا عيب فيهم غير أن سيوفهم...» the seeming exception adds praise of courage.
- The second form of emphatic praise necessarily begins by denying defects.
- In «فلان فاسق إلا أنه جاهل», a second defect can intensify the blame.
- In istitbāʿ both connected qualities are praiseworthy, and the second follows from the first.
- The embedded secondary purpose in idmāj must always be praise.