Verbs such as enjoy in the sentence "students enjoyed the book" exhibit logical metonymy: "enjoy" is interpreted as "enjoy reading". From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
"metonymy" is a blind, mutilated metonymy — in fact, more of a catachresis than a metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
The technique that McCloud uses in the second panel is called metonymy -- creating the meaning for something by showing a related thing. From Wordnik.com. [COMIXTALK] Reference
The news media like to employ a figure of speech called metonymy and regularly claim to have received statements from streets and buildings. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
Throughout, the metaphor of brother against brother is a kind of metonymy for civil butchery in which family members slaughter one another in a grim contest of reciprocity. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
“teachers” is surely some kind of metonymy at best; if there is a teacher here it is ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [EDUCATION] Reference
The use of the metonymy isn't automatic in this case. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The Senate Votes on Tropes and the Troops] Reference
A metonymy used not by MoveOn, but by Senator Cornyn himself!. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The Senate Votes on Tropes and the Troops] Reference
Related aside: Much is made of Oates' use of metaphor and metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
The Table That Just Left: A cool, and elusive instance of metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
The Republicans 'own use of this metonymy is coming up in the Senate today. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The Senate Votes on Tropes and the Troops] Reference
She bowled over one pupil with "microcosm," another the next minute with "metonymy". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
In the line "Lucidity of soul unlocks the lips" are both metonymy and personification. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
It is a metonymy of the effect; for, he can now be moved to help, having been so tempted. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference
This idea of metonymy, or the part for the whole, resonates throughout the Shakespearean canon. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Oil may result from crushing, but the metonymy of effect takes a little thinking when you pause at it. From Wordnik.com. [God’s Grandeur « Unknowing] Reference
Or is it to be improperly received, that is, by a metonymy, for the very object which faith apprehends?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Geraldine and the scene of seduction are represented primarily through metonymy and synechdoche: we know. From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
Far from being the same, tropes such as metaphor (or metonymy) and anthropomorphisms are mutually exclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
Synecdoche is one of the borderline figures that create an ambivalent zone between metaphor and metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
The male use starts with metonymy, part for the whole, summarizing the beginning of male interest in the woman. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference
Christians do have an altar and, by metonymy, a sacrifice for their sins On that, also see Appendices II and III. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
De Man did not build any of his other early-70s essays so squarely over the Jakobsonian metaphor-metonymy divide. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
But if you use the Leader-for-Institution metonymy, you can see the general as standing for the entire armed forces. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The Senate Votes on Tropes and the Troops] Reference
When you say, I count two heads at this table instead of count two people at this table, that's an example of a metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2005] Reference
This last relation has been thought so important that the metonymy based upon it has received a distinct name -- +Synecdoche+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The word “style” derives from Latin stilus, an instrument for writing on wax tablets, hence, by metonymy, a way of writing. From Wordnik.com. [STYLE IN LITERATURE] Reference
I also know that I used synecdoche in that last sentence and I'm also glad to teach you the difference between it and metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [a hundred and ten cornets close at hand] Reference
Because the Proust passage contrasts not a metaphor and a metonymy but a metonymy (or synecdoche) 'understood' as a metaphor and. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
Fifthly, By a metonymy also, it is taken for the affections of the mind or soul of man, and that whether they be good or evil: Gen. xlv. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
My favorite example of all time is a convoluted instance of metonymy uttered by a friend of mine in the course of an ordinary conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Table that Just Left] Reference
"Columns of glittering steel advanced" contains another form of metonymy, that in which a material (steel) is named for that made from it (spears). From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
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