NOUN
- substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
How To Use metonymy In A Sentence
- Rhetorical devises are various, but those which operate in the increasing process are simile or metaphor, personification, metonymy , euphemism, garble and alias.
- Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’.
- He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
- The technique that McCloud uses in the second panel is called metonymy -- creating the meaning for something by showing a related thing. COMIXTALK
- 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
- This thesis has mainly explained semantic extension mechanism of basic color terms on the basis of metonymy and metaphor from synchronic approach.
- Whereas metaphor or metonymy name substitutive patterns that underwrite an unthreateningly tautological and propositional definition of truth ( "truth is a trope" in the sense of Introduction
- Hope, by a metonymy, is put for the thing hoped for, namely, heaven and the felicities thereof, called emphatically that hope, because it is the great thing we look and long and wait for; and a blessed hope, because, when attained, we shall be completely happy for ever. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
- He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
