الاستعارة التحقيقية والتمثيلية أبلغ من التشبيه
Direct and representative metaphor are more forceful than explicit simile.
Simile openly compares two things through a shared feature. Metaphor presents the resemblance as though the subject belonged to the class of its comparison. Representative metaphor transfers an entire scene to another situation.
Its added rhetorical force lies in assertive identification and transfer, not in a literal change of species or physical reality.
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Taʿrīḍ, Talwīḥ, Ramz, Īmāʾ and Ishārah; the Rhetorical Force of Figurative Speech
الاستعارة التحقيقية والتمثيلية أبلغ من التشبيه
Direct and representative metaphor are more forceful than explicit simile.
Simile openly compares two things through a shared feature. Metaphor presents the resemblance as though the subject belonged to the class of its comparison. Representative metaphor transfers an entire scene to another situation.
Its added rhetorical force lies in assertive identification and transfer, not in a literal change of species or physical reality.