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as impressive or forceful as it is in English; it would simply
read 'removing all faults'. In another context such as 'rooting
out the human race', the Arabic rendering of the metaphor would be
far more forceful than the English; hence the complexity of
translating metaphor.
Rhetorical structures start where syntactic structures
leave off. Therefore, they are not rule-governed. The meaning of
a rhetorical pattern is not the cumulative meaning of its
constituent elements. The meaning generates from the way the
lexemes are ordered and the cultural context in which the
rhetorical pattern unfolds. Rhetorical patterns derive their
meanings from specific features such as novelty of expression,
unusual order, parallelism of form, rhythmic features, repetition,
and total context. Discussing the function of such conventional
features in poetry, Samuel R. Levin writes:
"The significance of the function performed by the
conventions has been variously assessed. In some
treatments of the problem, the function is said to
be one of decoration and embellishment. Others
point to the organizing, unifying function of the
conventions. Still others discuss the interaction
of the conventions with linguistic characteristics
of the poem and claim that this interaction imparts
a certain complexity to the whole." (Literary
145