How To Use Metonymic In A Sentence
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The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
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This mode of speaking is metonymical, and the word carnal "flesh," is used instead of carnal, by
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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The first mode is synecdochical, the second common, the third metonymical; I add that the third might properly be called catachrestic if we attend to the just distinction of these members.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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Sure, he provides plenty of linguistic examples of the types of mappings metaphorical, metonymical, polysemic, etc., and even the types of inferences made, but no description of how any of this occurs.
Archive 2004-09-01
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The new photographic memorials are modeled on the United States' Holocaust Museum and its metonymic use of photographs to convey loss.
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The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
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On the one hand, in common usage, the term ‘grammar’ metonymically represents linguistic organization, even language itself, tacitly subsuming areas such as vocabulary and pronunciation.
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In metonymic use an attribute or necessary adjunct of something is used as a symbolic object in place of the thing itself.
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Often one piece of clothing, such as the cheongsam or kimono, supposedly metonymically represents all Asian culture.
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Shelley's use of the poetics of spice in canto viii of Queen Mab and the 'Fragment of an Unfinished Drama' is an example of the poetry of ornamentation and sentimentality which spawned Ecotopia, and an acknowledgement that commercial capitalism has its metonymic flows as well.
_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
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The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
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to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1)
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In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy.
Jihad Monitor
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Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche (a part for the whole) sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess.
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Others have tentatively suggested that the yarnwinder may allude to the spindle of the Three Fates, and should thus be regarded as a metonymic symbol of death - a classical counterpart to the cross.
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The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
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In fact, as de Man goes on to say, "the metaphor is not a metaphor since it has no proper meaning, no sens propre" (RCC 201) and could more properly be called "the metonymic reversal of past and present that rhetoricians call metalepsis" (RCC 201).
Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
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First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.
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Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family.
