metonymy
Example Sentences
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The closing credits begin unspooling over an image of a little girl’s shoes catching fire and burning up, a grimly poetic metonymy of the Gallardos’ tragic back story.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023
The catalyzing event becomes a metonymy for other sources of anger with the central government—corruption, police and military brutality, a ravaged job market—and the rallies massively increase in number.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2022
And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019
In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2016
Figurative or tropical language chiefly consists in the transfer of words to new senses, as by metaphor or metonymy.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
