metonymy
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Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 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
In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2016
The Acela metonymy suggests Bloomberg’s basic problem: His appeal is rather selective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2016
In the line “Lucidity of soul unlocks the lips” are both metonymy and personification.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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)
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)
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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