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What does metonymy mean?

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Noun
  1. The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
  2. (countable) A metonym.
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Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function.
He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other.
Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
Horace certainly employs metaphors, but metonymy is by far the more common trait in his poetry and brings his use of language closer to a vernacular diction.
This means at the level of the clinic that a symptom is a metaphor and desire is a metonymy.

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