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
Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022
The respite from the bureaucracy of motherhood she gives Daphne acts as a metonymy for the book’s larger yearning for release from endless lists of tasks.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2018
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
By a like metonymy of language, the "Ascension" of Christ has also allusion to the Sun at the summer solstice.
From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan
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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