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Referential Shift (Q80)

[[Main Page|BalaghaBase.org]]: Operationalising Arabic rhetoric, one rhetorical device at a time.
Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator mentions something, and then later uses a personal pronoun or demonstrative pronoun to apparently refer back to that thing although something related but different is intended by the pronoun
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Referential Shift
Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator mentions something, and then later uses a personal pronoun or demonstrative pronoun to apparently refer back to that thing although something related but different is intended by the pronoun

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