Thesaurus / metonymy
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synonyms for metonymy
- allegory
- allusion
- analogy
- anticlimax
- antithesis
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- metaphor
- ornament
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- analogue
- understatement
- adumbration
- alliteration
- anaphora
- antistrophe
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- proteron
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- way of speaking
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Metonymy is the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another to which the former bears a known and close relation.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERMetonymy calls one thing by the name of another which is closely related to the first.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERIn both cases the term so approximates to the meaning of Earth, doubtless by metonymy, as to be indistinguishable from it.
STUDIES ON HOMER AND THE HOMERIC AGE, VOL. 1 OF 3W. E. GLADSTONEMetonymy consists in naming an object by one of its attributes or accompaniments.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERThe general effect of metonymy is to bring before the mind a definite image, and thus to impart a graphic quality to the style.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERSynecdoche is a species of metonymy, and has the same effect of giving vividness.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERMonk, not Cromwell, is the military dictator that Milton has in view in the metonymy Sulla.
THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON, VOLUME 5 (OF 7), 1654-1660DAVID MASSONHere the word tongue is put for speech, the instrument for the thing effected, and this metonymy is joined with a metaphor.
COMPANION TO THE BIBLEE. P. BARROWSThe synecdoche, in which a part is put for the whole, as the sword for war, is in its nature essentially a metonymy.
COMPANION TO THE BIBLEE. P. BARROWSWhether it be synecdoche, metaphor, or metonymy, there is still a figure.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNWORDS RELATED TO METONYMY
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.