Confusion 1: Every min or bāʾ signals tajrīd. Correction: an imagined similar counterpart is required.
Confusion 2: Two people must actually exist. Correction: the second is a rhetorical construct.
Confusion 3: Tajrīd and metaphor are identical. Correction: metaphor involves transfer of expression, while tajrīd involves extracting a similar figure.
Confusion 4: Every monologue is tajrīd. Correction: the speaker must treat the self as another addressee in the relevant way.
Confusion 5: All exaggeration is tajrīd. Correction: intensification is broader; tajrīd is a particular extractive manner of achieving it.