المجاز والكناية أبلغ من الحقيقة والتصريح
Figurative speech and allusion may be more rhetorically forceful than literal and explicit statement.
This does not mean that a figurative sentence necessarily adds a new objective fact. Rather, it presents the quality or attribution with greater force and emphasis in its affirmation.
That principle underlies the comparison of compound figurative speech, metaphor, kināyah, and explicit expression.
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Taʿrīḍ, Talwīḥ, Ramz, Īmāʾ and Ishārah; the Rhetorical Force of Figurative Speech
المجاز والكناية أبلغ من الحقيقة والتصريح
Figurative speech and allusion may be more rhetorically forceful than literal and explicit statement.
This does not mean that a figurative sentence necessarily adds a new objective fact. Rather, it presents the quality or attribution with greater force and emphasis in its affirmation.
That principle underlies the comparison of compound figurative speech, metaphor, kināyah, and explicit expression.