metonymy

Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008

Hope, by a metonymy, is put for the thing hoped for, namely, heaven and the felicities thereof, called emphatically that hope, because it is the great thing we look and long and wait for; and a blessed hope, because, when attained, we shall be completely happy for ever.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

"metonymy" is a blind, mutilated metonymy — in fact, more of a catachresis than a metonymy.

Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

By a well-known figure of speech, called metonymy, we use a word denoting the means by which we accomplish anything to denote the end accomplished; we exercise care over anything by means of foresight, and indicate that care by the word foresight.

Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

The technique that McCloud uses in the second panel is called metonymy -- creating the meaning for something by showing a related thing.

COMIXTALK 2009

The news media like to employ a figure of speech called metonymy and regularly claim to have received statements from streets and buildings.

New Statesman 2009

Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993

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.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

[FN#8] A manner of metonymy, meaning that he rested his cheek upon his right hand.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

As Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, a Danish lecturer at University College London, told me during peak-hygge in 2017, Norwegians love metonymy, or substituting a word for a concept.

Fjord focus: is Norway's friluftsliv the answer to surviving a second lockdown? Morwenna Ferrier 2020