metonymy
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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
Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 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
Every associate is just a metonymy for his terrificness.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2016
A special seal is a very natural metonymy for a special commission.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
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
Vocabulary lists containing metonymy
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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