Referential Shift
type: Item
instance of: Arabic rhetorical device
part of: Indirectness & Ambiguity
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric page code: 576
described at URL: CD-5: Referential Shift
DOI: 10.64393/balagha.Q80
BALAGHA Score ID: CA-12
OpenAlex ID: W4415372090
is part of taxonomy: Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy v0.1.0
is part of taxonomy: Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy v0.1.1
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric ID: CD-5
label: الاستخدام @ar
description: 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