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
The catalyzing event becomes a metonymy for other sources of anger with the central government—corruption, police and military brutality, a ravaged job market—and the rallies massively increase in number.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2022
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
The Acela metonymy suggests Bloomberg’s basic problem: His appeal is rather selective.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2016
The principal varieties of the trope are the metonymy and the metaphor.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
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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