LessonsTaʿrīḍ, Talwīḥ, Ramz, Īmāʾ and Ishārah; the Rhetorical Force of Figurative SpeechQuiz

وليس معنى كون كل من المجاز والكناية أبلغ أن شيئا منهما يجب أن يحصل في الواقع زيادة في المعنى لا توجد في الحقيقي والتصريح
The greater force of majāz and kināyah does not require some additional fact absent from literal and explicit wording to arise in reality.

Calling a brave person “a lion” does not literally give them an animal’s body or all its properties. The metaphor strengthens the representation of courage by speaking of the person under the lion’s name.

This distinguishes rhetorical intensification from an invented external fact: the extra element belongs to the manner of affirmation.

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More force is not more factual content

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

وليس معنى كون كل من المجاز والكناية أبلغ أن شيئا منهما يجب أن يحصل في الواقع زيادة في المعنى لا توجد في الحقيقي والتصريح
The greater force of majāz and kināyah does not require some additional fact absent from literal and explicit wording to arise in reality.

Calling a brave person “a lion” does not literally give them an animal’s body or all its properties. The metaphor strengthens the representation of courage by speaking of the person under the lion’s name.

This distinguishes rhetorical intensification from an invented external fact: the extra element belongs to the manner of affirmation.