Where is the extra force in “I saw a lion” used for a brave man?

Taʿrīḍ, Talwīḥ, Ramz, Īmāʾ and Ishārah; the Rhetorical Force of Figurative Speech

• In emphatic, assertive portrayal of courage
• In the man literally becoming an animal
• In adding all physical properties of a lion
• In the syntactic length of the Arabic sentence