This lesson has defined simile as indicating shared meaning and distinguished its technical form from metaphor, allusion, and tajrīd.
The two terms: identification of mushabbah and mushabbah bih is necessary to locate the comparison.
The shared feature: wajh al-shabah establishes the respect in which likeness is claimed.
The expression of linkage: presence or omission of a comparison marker affects explicitness and rhetorical force.
Context: the meaning and clue, as well as the visible wording, matter when distinguishing emphatic simile and metaphor.
In the next section, the classifications of simile follow from the properties of these elements, especially the nature of the two terms and the shared aspect.