Five questions can be applied in order:
1. Does the literal meaning remain available, or does context redirect it?
2. Is the target a referent, an attribute, or an attribution?
3. Are the inferential links many or few, and is the relation clear or obscure?
4. Is the apparent addressee the person actually intended?
5. If the expression is figurative or allusive, what assertion is strengthened?
This keeps the division of kināyah, its stylistic modes, and its contrast with majāz analytically distinct.