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

It is a metonymy that suggests that the irreducible lives and fates of the dispossessed are not this show’s concern, and certainly haven’t been “recovered” as we were promised at the outset.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

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

It is equally true that they were Idolaters--they worshipped images or statues of the gods, which images were also, by an easy metonymy, called "gods."

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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)

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)