metonymy
Example Sentences
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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
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
In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2016
Often by a metonymy of speech the name of a part is given to the whole.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
