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How to use metonymy in a sentence

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In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations.
If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology, metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.
He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.
Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function.
These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy.
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.
They use it to refer to their place of business, as a metonymy to designate a geographical territory, not an administrative territory.
This means at the level of the clinic that a symptom is a metaphor and desire is a metonymy.
Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony.
In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations.
Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess.
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.
But, wait a minute, isn't that exactly what metonymy does?
Looking back, then, from lines 4 and 5, the metonymy for discomfort becomes a metonymy for life and death.
Satan in this sense becomes a sort of literary figure or metonymy for challenging orthodoxy, rather than an evil or bloodthirsty god. All of this is considerably less headline-grabbing than animal sacrifice or ritual murder.
Particular churches that inherit and perpetuate a particular patrimony are identified by metonymy with that patrimony.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In both cases the term so approximates to the meaning of Earth, doubtless by metonymy, as to be indistinguishable from it.
The general effect of metonymy is to bring before the mind a definite image, and thus to impart a graphic quality to the style.
Figurative or tropical language chiefly consists in the transfer of words to new senses, as by metaphor or metonymy.
By metonymy from this supreme and metropolitan quarter of Greece, it means the whole country.
The metonymy is founded on the relation of one thing to another.
The principal varieties of the trope are the metonymy and the metaphor.
Often by a metonymy of speech the name of a part is given to the whole.
Whether it be synecdoche, metaphor, or metonymy, there is still a figure.
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