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  • noun Plural form of metonymy.

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Examples

  • While Aleksiuk's interpretation that the architectural elements are metonymies for powerful institutions is insightful in explaining the revolutionary power of the storm, I disagree with her interpretation of this moment as a "critique" of the revolution.

    '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

  • Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain metonymies, we feel that

    Les Miserables 2008

  • "Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric" and two essays of Derrida frame what Nietzsche lists in his breakdown of "truth" into rhetorical terms, a "mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms"

    Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

  • Over the last two decades, cognitive linguists have mapped out the basic elements of thought -- image-schemas, frames, conceptual metaphors and metonymies, prototypes, mental spaces.

    The Grand Theory of All Thought: Blending Chris 2004

  • -- _In the first four sentences, use similes; in the second four, metaphors; in the third four, personifications; in the last eight, metonymies: -- _

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

  • Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Other metonymies are more contextually dependent for their interpretation, as in 'The lead guitar has gone AWOL' where a more contingent 'stands-for' relationship pertains between the musician and the instrument played.

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  • Like metaphors, metonymies find their expression in everyday discourse practices: 'They're just a bunch of prawn sandwiches' can be said of any set of supporters, and not just those who comprised the original referents of it.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010

  • Other metonymies are more contextually dependent for their interpretation, as in 'The lead guitar has gone AWOL' where a more contingent 'stands-for' relationship pertains between the musician and the instrument played.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010

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  • Jonathan Franzen Corrections

    Gary had always enjoyed corporate gardens as backdrops for the pageant of privilege, as metonymies of pamperment ...

    August 7, 2009