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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) WEBSTER
Metonymy calls one thing by the name of another which is closely related to the first.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
In 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. GLADSTONE
Metonymy consists in naming an object by one of its attributes or accompaniments.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTER
The 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. PAINTER
Synecdoche is a species of metonymy, and has the same effect of giving vividness.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTER
Monk, not Cromwell, is the military dictator that Milton has in view in the metonymy Sulla.
Here 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. BARROWS
The 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. BARROWS
Whether it be synecdoche, metaphor, or metonymy, there is still a figure.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGN
WORDS 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
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