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Definition of Metonymy
Metonymy is based on association
between dictionary and contextual
meanings.
NB! In a metonymy the objects
(phenomena) have common
grounds of existence in reality.
Synecdoche
Synecdoche is based on a particular kind
of metonymic relationship which may
be considered quantitative:
A part stands for the whole or the whole
for the part: May I put a word in?
Wheels (a car), staged hand, hired
hand.
An individual stands for a class:
.
Antonomasia
It is a lexical SD in which a
proper name is used instead of a
common noun or vice versa: He
is the Napoleon of crime; Mr.
Murdstone, Scrooge, a ladykiller is Don Juan, a traitor may
be referred to as Brutus.
Metonymic (based
on association):
He has sold his
Vandykes. Ive just
listened to Mozart.
Do you like
Brahms?
Carl Sandburg
Fog
The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and
city
On silent
haunches
And
then moves on.
Walter de la Mare
SILVER
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks through the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
Walter de la Mare
SILVER
EPITHET
An epithet is a colorful attribute
which characterizes a person, thing or
phenome -non.
Poetic epithet: a steel will.
Simple adjective: a steel knife.
Function: to reveal the emotionally
colored individual attitude of the author
towards the object described.