What distinguishes representative metaphor from explicit simile?
Taʿrīḍ, Talwīḥ, Ramz, Īmāʾ and Ishārah; the Rhetorical Force of Figurative Speech
- Simile never involves a shared quality
- Transferring a whole scene versus stating an overt comparison
- One always has one word and the other a particle
- Representative metaphor never needs context