Hadi Rezwan
Abstract
Implicit Metaphor is one of the disputable matters in Arabic eloquence which rhetoric's scholars have talked about in detail. Regarding this matter, there are at least four viewpoints: ...
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Implicit Metaphor is one of the disputable matters in Arabic eloquence which rhetoric's scholars have talked about in detail. Regarding this matter, there are at least four viewpoints: predecessors' viewpoint, Khatib Qazwini's viewpoint, Sakkaki's viewpoint, and Isam al-Din Esfaraini's one. Sakkāki's viewpoint has attracted many explainers and scholars' attention and they tried to interpret and remove its contradictions with different methods. Baleki also tried to describe the Sakkaki's viewpoint of implicit metaphor and to interpret it, so that he could reduce its flaws but his research is subject to criticism too.The researcher in this paper, after throwing light on this hypothesis, compares it to other view regarding the implicit metaphor and puts it in the crucible of criticism and dispute. Within the results found in this research, we can point to that Baleki has guesstimated in every metaphor two similes, one is direct and the other opposite, and the word usage in the second simile is metaphorical not real. Therefore, it is not erroneous to regard an implicit metaphor as a verbal metaphor, so Baleki could reply opposing questions regarding Sakkaki's viewpoint. Another result of this research is that, though Baleki's viewpoint toward implicit metaphor is similar to that of Esfaraini who considered it as an opposite simile, but contrary to his view, Baleki could differentiate between explicit and implicit metaphors while the former one had regarded implicit metaphor a subdivision of the explicit one.
