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06:27, 16 февраля 2013

Metonymy

Blog post imageis a word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word. Sometimes a metonymy is chosen because it is a well-known characteristic of the word.

Examples:

  • White House ->refers to the President and his staff.  The building isn’t part of the President, it’s just closely related/associated.
  • Pentagon -> refers to the military and civilian staffers.  Again, the building isn’t part of them.  The term’s just closely related.
  • Hollywood -> We often refer to the film industry as Hollywood.  However, not all of the film industry is in Hollywood.

Synecdoche

Blog post imageunderstanding one thing with another: the use of a part for the whole, or a whole for the part (a form of metonymy)

ANTONOMASIA

In rhetoric, the use of an epithet to acknowledge a quality in one person or place by using the name of another person or place already known for that quality (a form of metonymy)

Examples:

The Bard of Avon - William Shakespeare

The Little Corporal -  Napoleon I

The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher

Purpose of a Metonymy

As with other literary devices, one of the main purposes of using a metonymy is to add flavor to the writing. Instead of just repeatedly saying, "the staff at the restaurant" or naming all of the elements of a dinner each time you want to refer to the meal, one word breaks up some of that awkwardness.

Using a metonymy serves a double purpose - it breaks up any awkwardness of repeating the same phrase over and over and it changes the wording to make the sentence more interesting.


http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-metonymy.html

http://fos.iloveindia.com/antonomasia-examples.html

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