metonymy
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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
The Acela metonymy suggests Bloomberg’s basic problem: His appeal is rather selective.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2016
The “few names” which had not defiled their garments, were used by a metonymy to signify persons.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester
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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