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Example sentences for: metonymy

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All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
Women's language is often metonymy for women's literary style.
“Address your remarks to the chair” illustrates metonymy, a figure of speech in which something is called by the name of something else associated with it.
As the main purpose of this collection is to trace the origins of folk metaphor in English, nearly all examples of metonymy, synecdoche and swearing have been omitted as being too marginal or personal...
2. crown for king: metonymy:: blade for sword:?