metonymy

Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

The weapon’s power — to destroy all computers on board the American ships, rendering them utterly isolated — works as a kind of metonymy for the book’s argument about America’s waning global influence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021

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

Every associate is just a metonymy for his terrificness.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2016

The general effect of metonymy is to bring before the mind a definite image, and thus to impart a graphic quality to the style.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

Rhetoricians give elaborate classifications of metonymies, but they are of little value to the scriptural student, since all are interpreted according to the few simple principles given in the preceding chapter.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

For a time it seems not so important to classify the metonymies as to make peas or dandelion taste like coffee.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)