metonymy

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

But there are risks in this kind of metonymy — what writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has called “the danger of a single story.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018

Every associate is just a metonymy for his terrificness.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2016

In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2016

And hence, again, by metonymy, to that projecting part of the land, whereby the gulf is formed; and still further to any promontory or peninsula.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

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 E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

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 J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis