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  2. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    Metonymy and related figures of speech are common in everyday speech and writing. Synecdoche and metalepsis are considered specific types of metonymy. Polysemy, the capacity for a word or phrase to have multiple meanings, sometimes results from relations of metonymy. Both metonymy and metaphor involve the substitution of one term for another. [6]

  3. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

  4. Metaphor and metonymy - Wikipedia

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    The couple metaphor-metonymy had a prominent role in the renewal of the field of rhetoric in the 1960s. In his 1956 essay, "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles", Roman Jakobson describes the couple as representing the possibilities of linguistic selection (metaphor) and combination (metonymy); Jakobson's work became important for such French ...

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; IsiZulu; ... For example, in the phrase "lands belonging to the crown", the word crown is a metonymy because some monarchs do indeed wear a crown, ...

  6. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).

  7. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    Metonymy is similar to synecdoche, but instead of a part representing the whole, a related object or part of a related object is used to represent the whole. [2] Often it is used to represent the whole of an abstract idea. Example: The phrase "The king's guns were aimed at the enemy," using 'guns' to represent infantry.

  8. Category:Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Metonymy" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Category:Tropes by type - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Українська ... Metonymy; S. Synecdoche; T. Trope (politics) This page was last edited on 26 January 2022, at 06:45 (UTC). Text is ...